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The rise of the knowledge worker is probably linked to the rise of meditation and mindfulness. When you are paid for your thinking, it pays to have your thinking be the best it can possibly be.

You can't pursue expertise if you're scared of starting. Why it's better to get numb first before you focus on getting good.

A brief summary and review of Luke Burgis's book Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

Wanting is about the origins of desire. In deriving how desires form, Burgis shows us how to understand what we want and better navigate life.

The most important lesson I learnt from writing and launching a book in 2019, applicable to all those who've decided to take on self-directed work in their lives.

Three nuanced takes by three believable people, all of whom argue that ‘follow your passion’ isn't as rubbish as Cal Newport suggests.

Over the long term, enthusiasm for most projects fade with time. Here's one useful way to think about it.

A technique to prevent burnout from my old bosses in Silicon Valley. And then some moral philosophising.

Reading n books a year isn't as bad a goal as you might think. Here's why.

A non-comprehensive summary of the first section of Ray Dalio's Life Principles, which concerns itself with ‘dealing with reality’.

Ray Dalio's has a 5 step process that reads slightly self-helpy, but like the rest of Principles, was written for the rational man in mind.

Six surprising implications from treating self-help as technê.

Reading self help is but a form of taking advice. Most of it is bullshit. But here's how to do it.

Pessimism can spark an idea. Annoyance can drive ingenuity. Disappointment can redirect effort towards change. But creativity requires optimism. Creativity isn't about starting something. It's about making something. Making requires sustained effort, and sustained effort requires fuel. That fuel is optimism. When you run out, momentum ...

Lately I’ve been studying Andrew McConnell’s new book Get Out of My Head: Creating Modern Clarity With Stoic Wisdom and listening to his interview on The Atlanta Story podcast. With a n…

"Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing", intones Tyler Durden in Fight Club, as his alter-ego is screaming from the chemical burn. It's a profound scene that taps into a well of philosophical thought that humans have been struggling with forever. And it's applicable to more mundane affairs too. I like to think of this ...

Three rare and powerful skills…

It doesn't always have to be so hard

Often, when people say they "don't have time", what's really missing is the energy to get started, the will to say "no" to a lower-energy, usually dopamine-ridden alternative like watching Netflix or ...

In 1990, David Letterman asked his friend Jerry Seinfeld how his new sitcom was going.

A trick to learning a complicated topic is realizing how many complex details are a cousin of something simple.

Spare a thought for the poor guppy fish, who lives a miserable existence but teaches us something important about forecasting.

Richard Held and Alan Hein raised 20 kittens in pitch black darkness.

Steamboat Willie put Walt Disney on the map as an animator.

Amazon’s Fire Phone was a failure.

An in-depth guide to writing the above-the-fold section of your website. Learn the advanced strategies used by copywriting experts. Your "above the fold" (ATF) section is the part of your site that's immediately visible before scrolling.

How we scaled our two-person bootstrapped startup to support 4k+ subscribers, 1k+ trials per month and a growing open source community before looking for any help.

We’ve made it to $10,000 MRR with Plausible Analytics! Several people asked about our lessons learned, so I wanted to share some in this post.

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