Don't Beat Yourself Up Over Self-Directed Work - Commonplace
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.
How To Optimise for Success, A Theory - Commonplace
Successful practitioners use 'optimise for usefulness' over 'optimise for truth'. Unintended side effect: this means it's ok to believe in religion, so long as it doesn't harm you.
A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice - Commonplace
A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice is a series that examines the idea of putting Charlie Munger's Elementary Worldly Wisdom to practice in one's life in the pursuit of better decision making.
In an Age of Knowledge Work, Emotion Regulation is a Superpower - Commonplace
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.
Time Allocation as Capital Allocation - Commonplace
What if we treated time management as a bet allocation problem? Say that we have a finite number of hours, which we might spend on a variety of career activities. How do we figure out what to spend our time on, instead of merely thinking about time management as how to tackle our todo lists?
The three kinds of non-fiction books - Commonplace
There are 3 kinds of non-fiction book: 💁♀️ narrative, 🌳 tree, and 🌿 branch. Not every non-fiction book is worth reading, and not every book should be read the same way. These categories explain why.