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The Careful Speaker
March 27, 2025
From first voice to thoughtful choice, the value of strategic silence in a noisy world.
Why I moved from Ghost to Substack in 2025?
March 26, 2025
Ghost is great, but Substack is a community that gives you so much more.
Volume Is the Secret Sauce
March 26, 2025
Why Quantity Beats Perfection Every Time
The Argument Tax
March 24, 2025
Here's what winners know: The argument tax is too expensive.
The Choice at Every Crossroad
March 21, 2025
It's never just once. It's a thousand tiny crossroads every day.
The Only Productivity Tool You'll Ever Need
March 17, 2025
The most powerful productivity tool ever invented is simply the word "no."
The Hard Work Trap
March 15, 2025
Truth about hard work: direction matters more than effort.
The Imagination Tax
March 14, 2025
The amount a person uses their imagination is inversely proportional to the amount of punishment they will receive for using it.
Book Summary: But What If We're Wrong by Chuck Klosterman
March 13, 2025
Book Summary for But What If We're Wrong by Chuck Klosterman
7 Unflinching Rules of Showing Up
March 12, 2025
Discover the 7 unflinching rules of showing up that separate success from failure.
The Collector of Laters
March 11, 2025
What happened to all those carefully preserved "laters"?
The Better Trap
March 10, 2025
Greatness comes not from believing you're great, but on the contrary, from an obsession on how to be better.
The Extra Mile Has No Traffic
March 2, 2025
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
The Excuse Fork in the Road
March 1, 2025
The winners aren't the ones with fewer problems or better circumstances. They're the ones who chose a different relationship with their excuses.
The Castle Builders
February 27, 2025
We're really good at building things that don't exist.
Ignore the Noise, Do the Thing
February 26, 2025
Screw the critics, do the damn thing.
The Size of Now
February 25, 2025
The gap between dreaming and doing isn't measured in distance. It's measured in nows.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: The Two Speeds of Thought
February 25, 2025
Instant responses and extended reflection – living side by side.
The Lazy Theory Test
February 24, 2025
Your mind is a brilliant defense attorney, building perfect excuses for inaction. Here's the simple test that exposes its favorite lie.
The AI Mirror
February 24, 2025
What will your AI mirror reflect?
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