Category: Links of Interest

  • Trying to Measure the Artistic Gain

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    Because instead of comparing me with me, I was comparing me with da Vinci, with my friend the professional illustrator, with all the artists who’d inspired me to want to start to draw. The first bar was way too high. I’d just started to jog and was beating myself up for not running a marathon…

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  • Does your product fit the market?

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    Great primer in product market fit from my friend AJ. I’m just in the middle of digging into this idea to improve my positioning and marketing. It will be my reading focus for much of the year.

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  • That Ideal Day

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    I love this article detailing the ideal day where everything went right. I love it because some of it is achievable every day. You can go to bed earlier and get the rest you need. You can decide to bury your phone in your backpack, or even leave it at home, and spend time talking…

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  • Are you refining

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    Thoughtful post from Scott on the process of creating taking time. I was just talking to some of my coaching students today about some new thinking told and strategies I’ve been using that have been helpful. Old Curtis would just have launched something about it. This time I’ll work through it with my clients a…

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  • 151 – Avoiding Hardship

    151 – Avoiding Hardship

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    Too many people avoid any sense of hardship in their lives. They fear they can’t handle it or that they’ll be judged or rejected. – High Performance Habits …and… Our culture today is obsessively focused on unrealistically positive expectations: Be happier. Be healthier. Be the best, better than the rest. – The Subtle Art of…

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  • Another Great Review of So Good They Can’t Ignore You

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    I loved So Good They Can’t Ignore you. You can read my review of it here. Well, here is another good review of the book. Like the author, I love Deep Work and this book and almost everything Newport writes.

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  • The Worst Thing You’ve Done

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    The whole interview was great, but this minute as Catherine Hoke talks about being known first for the worst thing you’ve done. I’m still thinking about it an hour later. Stop and think about the worst thing you’ve done. That time you failed or fought or … Who knows. I’d be in jail. I’m blessed…

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  • Make Everyone Happy

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    Social media makes it easy to be both dissatisfied and to have a mission at the same time: Make everyone happy. – Never smooth enough — a modern addiction Timely as I’ve been doing a bit of this lately. Trying to make people that don’t matter happy. Going to stop.

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  • Are You Interested In Documenting

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    Another good one today on Medium, this time about documenting the struggles we have on the way to success. Do you read more people that talk about the struggles or show off success all the time? One is a highlight reel you can’t ever compare your real life to. The other is someone on the…

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  • Creating Running and Writing

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    Ryan Holiday has a nice post on writing and running. I write and I run. I code and I run. Sometimes I run then code and run again. There is just something about being out there under your own power with a pair of shoes and some water that frees the mind for me. What do…

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