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Let the weak ties go
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From Digital Minimalism: The idea that it’s valuable to maintain vast numbers of weak-tie social connections is largely an invention of the past decade or so — the detritus of over exuberant network scientists spilling inappropriately into the social sphere. Those 50 people you short of knew in high school, but never really talked to
Systems in Contrast to Goals
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From Irresistible: Systems stand in stark contrast to goals like “attract one thousands Instagram followers,” which serve only as signposts of failure. When you do reach your goal, a new one materializes in it’s place — now two thousand Instagram followers seems like an appropriate target. Reading that this morning it’s making me think of
I need to get back to book reviews
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Thomas Oppong: Learning comes down to two things: repetition, and connecting new information to existing knowledge. And Learn for 50% of the time and explain what you learn for 50% of the time. You’ll notice a lack of book reviews. I haven’t stopped reading but with attempting to see what’s up with YouTube I haven’t
You Focus on what you don’t have
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Oliver Burkeman for The Guardian: When you don’t have enough of something, you fixate on it, so it occupies much more mental bandwidth. If you’re not sure you’ll have enough money to feed your family all this month, you have an obvious problem, but also a non-obvious one: the toll on your mental resources, research
On Hybrid Digital and Analog Task Management
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If you’re looking for a solution for this, check out this thread in The Productivity Guild. I do a hybrid system, which I wrote about in Analogue Productivity, and showed off in my March planning video.
The bare minimum for listening…
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Is to have learned something from someone else. listen to the rest of this for more awesome discussion on good conversation.
If you carry your phone at all times…your kids will notice
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Cal Newport: This latter point is one that we parents sometimes don’t want to hear, but it keeps coming up in my conversations: if you carry your phone with you at all times, checking it constantly, it’s difficult to convince your kids not to do the same, no matter how many rules you set or
Mark Manson on Changing Yourself with Willpower
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Mark Manson: Chances are, at some point in your life, you’ve tried to change your behavior through sheer willpower. And chances are, you also failed miserably. Don’t feel bad! This is what happens most of the time. Made me think of Atomic Habits and designing our environment for success. If you eat sweets all the
I keep grabbing my phone
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Kevin Rose for The New York Times: For the rest of the week, I became acutely aware of the bizarre phone habits I’d developed. I noticed that I reach for my phone every time I brush my teeth or step outside the front door of my apartment building, and that, for some pathological reason, I
What man needs to know when 28 days have passed?
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Caroline Criado Perez: Going back to the theatre of Man the Hunter, the lives of men have been taken to represent those of humans overall. When it comes to the other half of humanity, there is often nothing but silence. And these silences are everywhere. I feel like I’m more attuned to this with 3