/* Code Comments */10 posts tagged with "habits"
writing as a sales process
2022-11-28
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I’m reading Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down and her detour into the psychology of the unemployed has me thinking. Specifically about how…
the hemingway stop and other applications
2022-11-28
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are…
be the verb
2022-11-28
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Be the Verb “If you want to be the noun, you have to do the verb” - Austin Kleon When I came across this Austin Kleon quote recently, it hit…
an unremarkable achievement: accomplishing goals through steady progress
2022-11-28
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Yesterday I accomplished a goal I’d been working toward for close to three months: I swam an uninterrupted 200m freestyle. It wasn’t special…
working on the wrong problem
2022-11-28
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Working with code is an extraordinarily satisfying experience. Not in the minute-to-minute. At that scale, it can be infuriating. The code…
reminders and suggestions
2022-11-28
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Every week I sit down and write what I want to stop, start, and continue. That habit, it would seem, should insulate me to some degree both…
don’t let facts get in the way of a good story
2022-11-28
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Don’t Let Facts Get In The Way Of A Good Story The first time I heard about Jerry Seinfeld’s “Productivity System” was 2013.1 2 The system…
the limits of habits
2022-11-28
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Are there areas of life where the costs of efficiency gained outweigh the costs? Of course. It’s just not a question that I ask that…
you're doing it wrong
2022-11-28
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Ryan Holiday recently weighed in on the phenomenon of ‘ultra hardcore readers’ - people who spent nearly every spare minute of their day…
the hidden cost of habit creep
2022-11-28
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Habits are a way to automate certain decisions to make space for the bigger ones. They are not, however, a panacea - a lesson which became…