How to set good (useful) goals

How to set yourself up for success by playing with the way you frame goals Example #1 Goal version 1: do 30 mins of cardio session, then take a cold shower. X Not so fun. Goal version 2: heat my body up enough to be able to enjoy the cold shower. √ Motivated and enjoyed…

Screenshots

Let’s talk about screenshots. Screenshots are Zapier for the masses. The most reliable and versatile tool to capture and share. Works across all apps, platforms, and devices. Want to share something from WhatsApp to Telegram? Facebook to Twitter? Instagram to WhatsApp? Screenshot Want to remember to continue watching that video later? Screenshot with the timestamp…

ThoughtsTREams

Thinking in progress Monday, 29 April 2024 14:23 | published view | live editing Tuesday, 23 August 2022 08:16 – Elizabeth Gilbert’s big ideas” | static view | live editing | published —- 2021 —– Saturday, 04 September 2021 21:19 – Architecting a decision making flow. AKA: reducing friction in getting things done in an…

Changes

Whatever you have right now, you won’t have forever. Whatever you have right now, you didn’t have before. _ Knowing that things will change won’t help keeping it from changing. But knowing you can influence the direction, magnitude, and pace of the change will help to some extent. Sometimes it takes a while to receive…

We Like Being Gaslit

Was reading and highlighting this article here and felt like I disagreed. Nope, just like all my sabbaticals…. I gained clarity and perspective for 3 days. And bam, all back. Just like my burnouts, all 4 of them. Right back on it in 3–4 years. Yes we will ride some momentums, make some improvements, and…

What’s the value of management consulting?

https://elischragenheim.com/2016/07/01/from-a-toc-perspective-paying-tribute-to-a-great-pragmatic-thinker/ In a public speech he gave in 1971 he warned: “The wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a…

Trust Your Judgement

That op-ed from Yuval Harari the other day: the world after coronavirus. Apparently it wasn’t just me who thought it’s a bunch of nothing. https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1248570850258935809 Is this just people trying to signal being more “woke” than Yuval? Or it is genuinely trash? https://twitter.com/TheAnnaGat/status/1248568134983958529 https://twitter.com/TheAnnaGat/status/1248569240074018817 What I took from this is…. speak up. share your thoughts.…

Is there a way to learn non-linearly?

if we can only think linearly (where it’s natural to do cause-effect deduction, reductionism), then it feels learning is an even more restricted / bottlenecked activity in this pandemic it became more apparent how bad we are at wrapping our heads around / making sense of complex adaptive systems like the world. we can’t easily…