Tiago Forte and I both started out teaching people to get more done. A conversation about why an annual life review works as a safety valve for optimizers, and what proportion, grace, and writing down what resonates have to do with it.
From the inside, familiar and true can feel almost identical. Here are three ways to listen for the difference before you renew, join, or commit to anything.
An election is the start of a term, not a one-day event. Here’s the practice I’m using to keep receipts on the people I voted for (and the ones I didn’t), one small check at a time.
Radical hope isn’t optimism and it isn’t denial — it’s holding a clear-eyed view of how hard something is at the same time as believing it can change. Dr. Tiffany G. Townsend on what that takes.
Adjusting things feels like progress. An experiment asks a question you intend to answer and then stop. Mike Vardy and Patrick Rhone on the endpoint that separates the two.
Efficiency is a useful tool for exactly one thing — managing waste. Nick Richtsmeier on why making it your core strategy guarantees nobody will ever love what you build.
Productiveness is the older word, and it describes a state rather than a rate. Here’s why that distinction has teeth — and why data can change your rate but never your state.
Falling behind requires someone waiting. Stopping is just the absence of motion. Here’s why the difference matters, and why cadence beats consistency when you’re coming back from a break.
Founder Zakhar Azatian has failed at more personal challenges than he’s finished — which is exactly why his take on designing one that actually sticks is worth hearing.
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