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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    ~15 min read

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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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    ~4 min read

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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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    ~2 min read

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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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    ~2 min read

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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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    ~2 min read

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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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    ~4 min read

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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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    ~2 min read

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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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    ~2 min read

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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…

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