A workout, particularly one in which we’re following an instructor or a set progression of exercises, has a clear start and end. If it’s a challenging routine, odds are we won’t make it through cleanly. We’ll need to take unplanned breaks, or we’ll fall short of the rep targets. One potential approach is to optimize …
Rather than simply moping because our lives are restricted, we can use the current situation as an opportunity to learn about ourselves. Our lives have been disrupted for several weeks now: what specific aspects of your old life do you miss? Going out to eat? Shopping wherever, and whenever you want? Seeing family and friends? …
The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful. Plato, The Republic -Brandon
Living our lives in public might be one of the most powerful enablers at our disposal. Not public as in using the internet as a veil we hide behind when we want to throw out outlandish thoughts without the perceived risk of being in-person. Or designing a carefully-curated public life that fails to show anything …
Exciting news to start of the week…I’m launching a new project! The Future of Mobility podcast is an interview series in which I’ll be talking to innovators working on all aspects of mobility, which includes just about all ways that we move goods and people. The first episode is a conversation with a fascinating individual, …
Sometimes the most important thing we can do is take a step back. When we’re hit hard emotionally, it’s rarely a good idea to react quickly. Unless someone is bleeding out or time is otherwise acting against us, there’s rarely a good reason to react out of impulse. Most situations can wait however long it …
Tim Ferriss’s first podcast episode was awful. Look it up if you ever want a good laugh, it’s hard to even make it through the discussion. He isn’t alone. The first time anyone tries to make something, it doesn’t turn out well. That’s part of the learning process. There are two useful takeaways here. First, …
The greatest threat to success is not failure, but boredom. James Clear, Atomic Habits -Brandon
When we send an email or a text, the typical internal question is “does this make sense?” We look back through the words we’ve assembled and try to figure out whether we should expect the reader to accurately interpret our message. The problem, however, is that we’re obviously biased. We know what we were trying …
Incredibly, I’ve now shared 500 blog posts. It’s not something I had planned for, or expected, when I started, but here we are. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, whether you’ve been here from the beginning or joined on Post 499. It’s been a fun and meaningful journey for me and I hope …