If you’re in America Today was Labor Day — and many of you probably won’t be reading this until it’s no longer Labor day. That’s okay with me, because I just wanted to reach out and say something tangentially related to the holiday, but that is hopefully evergreen. Don’t work too hard. Seriously. And I think each one… Read More »Happy Labor Day
“Don Quixote in the Mountains”, Honoré Daumier (source) Stay Stuck, and exploit it. Seriously, hear me out. The Existential Crisis Creative types and knowledge workers will no doubt have experience with the term “stuck”. They will also likely shudder at its mere mention, or at seeing it in print. Negative connotations abound for this term, and it’s… Read More »On Being Stuck, And What We Should Do About it
I write in the personal development/productivity/inspiration space. That’s where I feel I can contribute, but more importantly, it’s what attracts and keeps my attention. But it’s riddled with writing that is both technically bad, and also just wrong-headed and harmful. I was bombarded by two examples of this yesterday. Both articles in The Mission, both… Read More »What’s Wrong With Inspirational and Personal Development Writing on Medium
Image by Frank Duveneck And Need Them Badly “Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” -Karl Marx- When I first elected to take up philosophy as a vocation, I was 19 years old. My reasoning was sound (for a 19-year-old): I loved reading and writing about philosophy, and I… Read More »Why Startups Need Philosophers
“Throes of Creation” by Leonid Pasternak Your progress is not on the page If you’re writing online, and you’re anything like me, you probably care about how many people see your work. You also probably care about how many people publicly like your work (recommends, likes, retweets, etc.). You probably also read work by authors who… Read More »You Are Doing Better Than You Think You Are
So, this week, I decided that aside from publishing my stuff in others’ publications, I’d make my own publication as well. I’m glad that you have hopped aboard my train. I’m not entirely sure what this will be, yet, but I hope that it’ll be something that you find valuable. That is my overarching goal — to… Read More »Greetings, followers!
What a dead Zen master can teach us about thinking outside the box c/o Pixabay.com If you gathered all of the core values of the fastest growing companies in the world, you’d be hard pressed to find one that doesn’t include innovation. And for good reason — when companies innovate, they gain the ability to do more and… Read More »Innovation Through Ignorance
How We Devalue Our Work, Simply by What We Call It source: pixels.com I write on the internet almost everyday. I don’t make any money doing it, but I do enjoy it immensely. However, my wife makes her living writing and designing on the web. Because of that, I know firsthand how valuable words and pictures… Read More »Please, Stop Calling it ‘Content’
Some people get REAL about productivity (courtesy of Wikipedia commons) A slight twist on your perception can help you do more, and do better About 3 years ago, I finally sat down and read David Allen’s seminal work on productivity Getting Things Done. It would not in fact be hyperbole to say that it changed my… Read More »How to Think About Your To Do List
No Hacks, Tricks, or Tips Will Do It credit: pixabay.com There’s a quote from a Robert Frost poem that I really like — but it’s not the one you may be thinking of: from “A Servant to Servants” by Robert Frost You can hack, disrupt, and innovate all you like, but at some point, those approaches cease to further… Read More »Sometimes, It’s Simply a Matter of Work
