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Contractors are part of your team
Keep it simple: Sonder to Empathy, or Experience to Work
Use paper to assist thinking, but store everything digitally
Distinction is good. Clarity is better.
Be Radically Relevant with your own name
Building in anticipation of new technology
At least there will be peace in my time
What do you think you know for sure?
Do you want more pageviews, or do you want more readers?
Context leads to contradictions
Rank tranquility over negative emotions
Great communication is built on trust
The Kindle Scribe is great if you love the Kindle
Innovation is defined by the market
When you’re up, go down, and vice-versa
The Kindle Scribe versus the reMarkable 2
Interstitial journaling is just so powerful
Watch the seeds more than the harvest
Smartphones change how we think
You probably don’t need that NDA
A video on your home page is likely a sign of bad messaging
Learning more leads to learning more
Business isn’t a zero-sum game
You aren’t rewarded for your effort
The power of Supertags in Tana
Remember more, or choose to forget?
Social Networking versus Social Media
Optimism is good; faith is better
Outliner versus plain text note-taking systems
Context is essential for learning
Familiarity helps you to discern
Options shrink as your expertise grows
Who wants to hear your message?
A good decision versus a good outcome
What is your service really worth?
Go to bed smarter than when you woke up
Interpersonal versus social empathy
Knowing it all is just the beginning
Empathy is more than just caring
How strongly do you support your favorite political candidates?
Who can see your website right now?
Sometimes you should make things more difficult
If you can’t understand “how someone could think that way”, that’s a problem
We’re at peak USB-C; is the next adaptor simply nothing?
What are the reasons not to buy?
The Pixel Watch goes simple and I love it
Push toward your goals or not, but you age at the same rate
The 10 minute procrastination rule
Utility work is so annoying, but so great
It’s like vacation starts tomorrow
Precise attribution is nearly impossible, and that’s ok
Some early thoughts on the Kindle Scribe
Storytelling could have saved Google Stadia
Determine the conditions to quit before you start
Mistakes and heroes are created in advance
Readwise is breathing new life into RSS
What would it take for you to turn away?
What happens when content REALLY takes off?
If you feel dumb, you just got smarter
Learning is easier when you don’t have to rush
What does AI-generated art mean for our future?
What is a “personal invitation”?
Make your operating system irrelevant
The refs aren’t out to get you
Your team is losing by one point at halftime? Perfect.
Should people respond to your marketing, or should they react to it?
You don’t have the ability to waste my time
I don’t know you, but I know all of you
Oppositional energy is a cheap shortcut
How much are you willing to share?
It’s not moral to steal people’s attention
Pushing for “always” to achieve “usually”
The world is far better than you think
“No” is great, but what’s your “yes”?
There’s always a level of indecision
Dehumanized people don’t count
What questions don’t you know?
Of course there is another hot item in the news
Lightning will strike soon, right?
Fuzzy boundaries can be powerful
“Here I am” or “there you are”?
100 books you need to read before you die
The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice
Filtering the entirety of my internetting through RSS
Expand all acronyms the first time you use them
The best coaches have very few social media followers
What are you spending your attention on?
Fix your weaknesses or enhance your superpowers?
Daily writing requires (reasonably) consistent routines
Is it a journey or a destination?
Organize your world’s information
If you agree to a lower price, pretend you didn’t
Simpson’s Paradox can make sports stats look weird
Write notes with propositional titles
Notes from “The Four Tendencies”
Conviction doesn’t require a closed mind
Kindness is about the recipient
The secret to Google search: Reddit
Being kind doesn’t mean you’re a pushover
Is your decision a one-way door or a two-way door?
Moving from Roam Research to Obsidian
If we spam you, please be polite to us
Alternative facts come from a lack of detail
You’re not really selling time
Saying “no” is intellectually lazy
Reading can be high-leverage work
Your visitors have their own mission
Pray for help, but put in the work
Progress moves at the speed of trust
How big is your unread library?
You’re a mashup of what you let in
If the customer rejects it, it’s a bad car
Seeing your partner’s next move
It’s the strong swimmers who drown
Make time for the right things
Someone should do something about that
Google extracts “near me” from search phrases
Sometimes I’d rather just read
It’s designed to wear out first
Don’t try to be the best – just be better
Should you be scheduling more emails?
Who should you accept criticism from?
Problem Solving versus Problem Finding
An overwhelming number of inputs
Efficient isn’t the same as effective
Important stuff can be hard to measure
That was a dumb decision, right?
Early objections come from premature solutions
New information needs to tie to old ideas
Unexpected ads are the problem
Where did that time come from?
Chance still counts when you win
I let the “other” Mickey handle that
You begin to fail when you deny your mistakes
But that doesn’t scale, does it?
Deceit is a poor marketing tactic
I change my mind. What do you do?
Mise en place for better writing
Should your offline activities affect your Twitter account?
Does accessibility help your website rank higher?
Are your requests scaring customers away?
Does your team know when to break the rules?
Popular doesn’t always mean good
The best people ask the toughest questions
Curiosity can vanquish boredom
Randomness doesn’t mean equal distribution
Race to the bottom or race to the top
User engagement doesn’t impact your search rankings
Distractions can help you learn
The right question is more important than the right answer
Being the best talker doesn’t mean you have the best ideas
Taking an idea from a car thought to a blog post
Knowledge is depreciating faster than ever
Full-time coaches are full-time learners
Collective sharing versus collective building
Understanding is not accepting
Internal linking is crucial for your website
You won’t be discovered, and that’s ok
Being overprepared can make things look easy
More content doesn’t mean more traffic, except when it does
Infinite doesn’t include everything
I love tools that have a clear ending… usually
Great ideas can come from either “side”
Get rid of busy and leave productive
Wider study can help in a narrow field
15% of all searches on Google are still brand new
Manage your time or your energy
Externalization leads to clarity
What does success really mean?
Would that decision look good in the newspaper?
The less you think you know, the better
Your tools matter less than you think
Do you need to buy ads to sell your product?
Plan the trip, but follow your headlights
Google being less transparent can be a good thing
Does “near me” help your website rank better?
Your product doesn’t need to be perfect
Are your beliefs strong or grounded?
All feedback is just data – right?
Plans never work perfectly, but they’re essential
Is your product the best use of their money?
Leave it better than you found it
If you can’t describe it, you don’t know it well enough
Absence Blindness rewards drama
If you have toxic links pointing to your website, just ignore them
Your brand is simply your reputation
My sources for weather updates
Comfort and growth come from different people
Have ideas, but don’t hold onto them
Learning fast versus learning deep
Integrated complexity feels like disloyalty
Your computer is way more powerful than you realize