Set a stopwatch not a timer
To be on time you must live in time
Reader survey results
Y'all have strong opinions on fruits
Embrace the clunk
Why you should occasionally take the stairs
You most definitely have a bias
You are not made of Teflon, Matthew
Everything becomes Jessica eventually
From punk to problematic and back again
You can't be good at everything
It's OK to suck at life sometimes
Forget about the thud factor
There is more than one way to smite your enemies
So let's take a moment to reflect
Ceci n'est pas un microprinciple
No one is coming to save you
Secure your own mask before helping others
You can't learn to drive in a parked car
Growth is the result of daring
Skip to the action
Don’t be a YouTube video
The problem cannot be Other People
Find common ground and find it fast
Start without slides
An easy-to-follow narrative is all your audience wants
Just make it edible
Start with what’s possible, you'll probably exceed it
Repetition breeds affection
You can wear your own grooves, if you try
Complication accelerates knowledge loss
More to know means less can be known
Don't leave out the impossible
Someone had to taste the first egg
There is enough
There is enough, you have enough, you are enough
Forget faster, cheaper, or "better"
Embrace differences, not superlatives
Think plural by default
Less is more, and more is more than that
Your wallet doesn't know the difference
You're not always rational about money
The universe is not binary
Your options are truly unlimited
Frequently asked questions
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Avoid ten-dollar words
Fancy language won’t save cheap ideas
Pursue the whole body yes
Democracy isn't always the answer
You need a little friction
What's holding you back might be holding you afloat
All endeavor requires compromise
You can't always get what you want, nor should you
Murder your first born ideas
At first you won't succeed, so try, try again
Own fewer, better things
Say yes to the best, no to the rest
Dichotomy #1: Red vs. Blue
An arbitrary war that will never stop raging
Be careful what you get good at
Why you shouldn't do anything you detest
Knowledge is not the same as information
Knowing something don’t mean you understand nothing
Avoid zero days at all costs
Do something, anything at all
Bring your adversary closer
All disagreement is a kind of violence
You are what you read
A diet that's even harder than keto
Culture is what is rewarded
Behavior beats buzzwords every time
What is microprinciples?
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