Tag: Featured
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Reconsider Victory Conditions
Hey friends, One of my favourite pastimes is to think about the myriad ways in which life is like a game. In ‘proper’ board games (ie: not terrible ones like…
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14 Lessons I Learned in 2019
Hey friends, One of the most joyful parts of the holiday season is that I don’t have to come up with some novel wisdom for this newsletter. I can just…
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New Year’s Resolutions
Hey friends, You’ve probably heard about how most people don’t end up sticking to their New Year’s Resolutions. They buy gym memberships in January, go a handful of times and then…
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Knowledge vs Execution
Hey friends, Here’s a fun short story for y’all. A determined book salesman once told a farmer that ‘a set of books on scientific agriculture’ would teach him to farm…
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Subtraction
Hey friends, I’ve been thinking a lot about subtraction recently. It started a few weeks ago when I noticed, for the first time in years, a slight sense of overwhelm in my…
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If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is
Hey friends, There’s a lovely quote from Kurt Vonnegut that I’ve been thinking about this week. “And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or…
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Tie Your Camel
Hey friends, Here’s a fun story I’ve been thinking about recently. It’s narrated by the 9th-century Islamic scholar Tirmidhi. It goes along these lines: One day, the Prophet Muhammad noticed…
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A productivity hack that actually works
Hey friends, One of the best productivity ‘hacks’ is to define the One Thing that you want to work on each day. We can ask the question “What would your…
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A little more effort
Hey friends, A few nights ago, I got home from work around 7pm. I was due to meetup with some fans (via my standing offer of coffee) which lasted until…
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Expand the Box
Hey friends, In a recent podcast, my brother and I discussed the concepts of invisible shackles, the hidden scripts we follow through our lives. We discussed the analogy of The Box (ie: our…
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Sleep is good
Hey friends, I’ve been listening to lots of podcasts about the importance of sleep, and how we screw ourselves in the long run by compromising our sleep. As such, because…
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Pay Yourself First
Hey friends, I was thinking today about the phrase ‘pay yourself first’. It’s one of the most important rules of personal finance. The idea is that whenever we get money…