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Good test for determining whether or not I’m actually hungry: Would I eat a carrot right now? If not, I’m probably just craving something sweet and I should drink some water instead.
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I’ve been feeling stuck with some creative issues at work and decided to try a new tactic today: I spent 30 minutes digging into what specifically I was stuck on instead of just the general “I’m Stuck.” I picked one of the items on that list and turned it into a question. I wrote that…
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Energy Management
Notes from The Productivity Show | Why Time Management Doesn’t Work & Why You Should Focus on Energy Instead (TPS142) The best time management system is worthless if you don’t have the energy to work on it. Energy has four components: Physical Emotional Mental Spiritual You need dedicated recovery time in each of these areas. …
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What to Do When You Mess Up
Own up to it and take responsibility for it. Fix it immediately. Put a system in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Could be a checklist, could be checks by multiple coworkers before something goes out, etc. Whatever works best for you and your team. Remember that feeling bad about it helps keep…
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Simple Microblog WordPress Theme
When I learned about the Micro.blog project by Manton Reece, I decided that I wanted to host my own microblog, so I made a minimalist microblogging WordPress theme for that purpose.
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A Reminder to Meditate
Reminder for myself: Meditation is good. Every time I do it I feel better afterward. Doing it continually leads to longer periods of contentment and focus. I tend to not want to meditate when I’m having a tough time because it is easier to complain and shut down than it is to clear my mind…
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When Stopping Makes Sense (and when you need to get back to work)
I’m all about committing and being relentless about pushing through tough situations no matter what comes up. Stopping because something is hard, you are tired, you don’t feel well, or it isn’t fun is unacceptable. Collect yourself and get back to work. That said, there is one situation in which stopping makes sense: When you…
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Want to learn to program? Actually building things is the best way to learn. Here is a great list of projects that you can complete in popular languages: https://github.com/tuvttran/project-based-learning
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The struggle of reading non-fiction is cutting through the filler quickly and determining what is unique and useful out of hundreds of pages. So many books are much longer than they need to be.
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The biggest advantage of a microblog: Lowering the posting barrier. I can post whatever I feel like instead of trying to make it “worthy.” I can get my ideas out with less anxiety. As I get into this mindset, I bet it will make putting stuff out elsewhere easier, too.
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The Most Important Thing About Creative Work
One of the things I’ve had to learn about transitioning into a more creative and visionary role with my new job is to change the way I think about when and where work gets done. The most important thing about creative work is that it gets completed by your deadline. Everything else is secondary. I’ve…
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Integrating Care into the Customer Experience
I was at an Intelligentsia coffee shop in Venice, CA, a few weeks ago. I ordered an espresso. As my order came up, I watched the barista. He pulled the shot, and as I was ready to take and enjoy it with the side of sparkling water they include, he paused before he gave it…
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How I Read and Take Notes
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How I Read and Take Notes
These are real books on my bookshelf, not a stock photo. I try to take time every day to read. Here is how I go about reading and taking notes on different mediums. Physical books Underline and take bullet point notes as I go through Revisit my underlines and bullet points a few days after finishing…
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You aren’t the first to romanticize failure. Keats was way ahead of you: Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.…
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The moment you consider a possibility, you are responsible for it. You can choose whether or not you do something about that possibility, but you must own that decision.
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Working outside this morning and enjoying a bowl of Cult’s Blood Red Moon from this month’s Tin SocietyArchived Link box.
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There is no right time to quit a job, have kids, or start something new. If you want something, you have to take the first step immediately and figure things out along the way. The right time will never come. Jump now.
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Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See
Awesome video on design thinking:
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Takeaways from this week’s Breaking Smart newsletter, Betting the Spread on Inexorables: Try multiple ultra short-term bets around a shared assumption. Don’t stick with something you don’t find valuable just so you “aren’t a quitter.” Constantly question whether or not the next step is what will produce the best results. Bet the spread, then switch…