Category: Book Club
The Cost of Taboos, Freedom and Chronological Snobbery
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I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting into with The Case Against the Sexual Revolution in this month’s book club but I’d say that it surprised me from the outset with some excellent questions I’ve been mulling over recently. First, Perry talks about the taboo discussions of liberalism which I also recently encountered in
Chase Jarvis and the Myth of the Self-Made Creator
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Next month’s book is The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. Join the book club to get all the posts. This month we read Never Play it Safe by Chase Jarvis. Jarvis’ premise is that the best stuff in life lives just outside your comfort zone. While comfort isn’t bad, and can lead to a good
Constraints are the Antidote to the Toxicity of Hustle Culture
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We live in an age of abundance. An age where you can order almost anything you want online and have it delivered in a few days to your doorstep. If you live in a major city you don’t even have to wait a few days, your momentary desire for longer metal straws can be fulfilled
Focus on What You Want to Build, Not Who Notices
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By many metrics we live in an attention economy now, where every big company wants to monopolize every moment of our lives so that we spend that moment enthralled in whatever makes them money. They don’t care about what you want to spend your time on. In fact this attention economy is all about ensuring
The Myth of the Self-Made Success
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The introduction of Never Play it Safe ends with a story I’ve heard before from Chase Jarvis. To abbreviate it, Paul is a photographer in Africa and he gives up his living situation to pursue his dream of photography. We hear about Paul because he succeeded. His story is talked about by Jarvis as one
The Efficiency Trap – Why Productivity Rewards Suck and an Antidote
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This was the book club book for August 2025. Join the free newsletter to get all the posts that talk about it. In September we’re reading Never Play it Safe by Chase Jarvis Where most productivity books try to give you a system to get more done, Oliver Burkeman takes a different stance. You need
The Efficiency Trap and the Power of Rest
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Once you stop struggling to get on top of everything, to stay in absolute control, or to make everything perfect, you’re rewarded with time, energy and psychological freedom to accomplish the most of which anyone could be capable. –Meditations for Mortals Pg 149 When I look at much of what concerns me in a day
What if it were easy?
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One of the key questions I’ve asked myself for years when a task comes along is “What if this were easy”, so seeing Oliver Burkeman bring up the same question in week three got me smiling. One problem with typical productivity advice is that it assumes you need a deep reservoir of motivation to do
Sipping the Comfortable Cocktail of Procrastination and Excuses
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I’ve lost count of how many people have told me they want to write a book — but never start. They want to be authors, but they’ve invented roadblocks limiting them from writing. They enjoy their comfortable cocktail of procrastination and excuses that gives them license to avoid writing. If you’ve got young kids and
Endless Scroll, Empty Soul – The Tyranny of Reading Later
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Pull and refresh on YouTube to bring you some new videos that their algorithm thinks you’ll like. Pull and refresh on Mastodon to see new articles recommended by people you follow, I’m sure some of them are interesting. Reddit lets you scroll to the “bottom” of a list of things that may interest you that