A quick peek into my mind wrestling with life changes over the past few months — maybe you can take something from it: I feel like I’m operating at 30% of my capabilities… which is never a great feeling. I want to be clear, that while I am selling software that aims to get us […]
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Feeling Busy… But Going Nowhere Some days I get so bogged down in tasks I feel like I don’t have time to lift my head up. Task saturation is such a common thing in our world today — and it turns the future bleak. I feel swept up and consumed by the demands of work,
The Book I Didn’t Read… and the One I Did I was 15 when my dad handed me a book: “The Mental Game of Baseball.” It changed my life immediately. Just kidding… I didn’t read it. Instead, I told him I did, and just continued on playing how I did before — inconsistently, lacking confidence,
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The biggest transformations seem to come when the pain of not changing is greater than the pain of changing. The thing is, it’s always relative. If the worst thing that has happened to me is that my mommy said I can’t get ice cream, it’s still the worst thing that’s happened to me. And if
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Language provides a deep comparative sense of things we experience. Commonly I hear things like, ” I can’t keep my head above water…. It feels like I’m drowning… I’ve been thrown in the deep end… the best I can do is just tread water…” Like Nassim Taleb’s triad: Fragility, Robustness, and Antifragility, this triad would
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A personal failure mode for me is falling into the neo-maniacal tractor beam of finding the newest, best stuff. We all know the mode where we get fixated on something — the newest phone, Apple Vision Pro, shoes, whatever… — and it consumes our life. Stubbornness is obviously a failure mode, too (Blockbuster). So the
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I oftentimes read or listen to people smarter than I nerd out about prime numbers, and I always struggled to understand why they care so much about them, especially in a non-mathematical context. But when looking at them as an irreducible entity, carrying its own unique properties, I start to see the significance. Similarly to
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Like anyone else on earth, one of the biggest obstacles I deal with on a daily basis is the friction — the resistance — to do what I need to do. One approach is focusing on all the elements within myself — goals, habits, invisible scripts and stories I tell myself, etc. — to get
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What common contexts include filters? …Coffee, HVAC systems, Instagram, engines, reports and data views, more. They’re tools to implement inclusion/exclusion rules — which presuppose a deeper purpose (keeping grounds out of morning coffee, cleaning the air we breathe, looking prettier, keeping the motor running, answering a questions about business, etc.). Harmony between openness and closed-ness
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Assembly theory is used to grasp the underlying principles and mechanisms determining the emergence and behavior of complex systems — from simple parts — in physics, biology, etc. It’s also useful in addressing the most basic human questions, including: What, to me, would be a life well lived? Anybody’s life is comprised of discrete objects,
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