Category: Links of Interest
It’s a Good Thing That Everything Isn’t Easy
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From the upcoming book by Neil Pasricha called You Are Awesome. …the thing so often missing from the conversation around ambitions exceeding abilities is the fact that it’s a good thing. That’s what you want! Can you imagine if everything you did was easy? Page 136 Sure it may sound good on the surface to
Playing Hooky From Commitments for Productivity
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This piece from Derek Sivers goes well with the one I just published from Justin Jackson, but back to Sivers: Some of my best, most productive, and enjoyable days have been while playing hooky. Not only is it okay to book “out of office” days to get work done like Jackson says, it’s totally fine
Revealing Your Failures Helps Others
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From a study titled Mitigating Malicious Envy: People are reticent to reveal their failures–both as they are happening and after they have occurred. However, in two experiments, we find that revealing successes and the failures encountered on the path to success (compared to revealing only successes) decreases observers’ malicious envy. What that means is, when
Out of Office Because I’m Working
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Justin Jackson asks why we don’t say we’re out of office when we have a big project to work on. What would happen if you took time away from your daily grind and focused on your personal project? I did this one year while writing a book. I took every Monday and figured I wasn’t
Busy…or Focused and Happy?
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MacSparky on being busy: For instance, when you see an old friend and ask how they’re doing, they will often tell you how busy they are. Busy seems to have turned into something like a badge of honor. That’s a mistake. To me, busy means that you haven’t figured out yet what is truly important.
Just Test It Out
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From Derek Sivers: There’s a huge difference between in-theory versus in-practice. If you’ve been deliberating on something for a while, get it out of your head, and into the world. One thing that people looking at freelance almost always leave to late is working to get their own client so they have to deal with
Use Homebrew to Set Your Mac Up Faster
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One of the things that’s great about working on an iPad is that all my apps are saved in an iCloud backup. Setting it up again is a fairly painless process, which is not the same with macOS. Casey Liss showed off a way to make setting up a new macOS install easier with Homebrew.
Adults Don’t Know What They’re Talking About
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Remembering the crazy predictions about a Rage Against the Machine concert, the author comes to a realization. It was the first time in my life I realized adults don’t know what they’re talking about. It was an important night. This is similar to a question I ask myself often, what do I believe now that
What Does Time Well Spent Mean to You?
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From Anne-Laure Le Cunff: Define what “time well spent” means to you: sit down, and think about what really makes you happy and gets you in the flow, without overthinking about how feasible the final outcome would be. Just think of your output and how it makes you feel to work on producing it. Maybe
Metaphorically Feeling Punched
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From Justin Jackson: I’m fortunate that I had people in my life who noticed I was in a negative tailspin and gently nudged me to take action. I’ve been wondering what’s up with myself lately (more on that in a future article). With that sentence above…I wonder if I have the answer. Am I harbouring