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Success happens when you teach someone how you think
You’re looking outside a window, and you see a tree. Somebody else is looking outside a different window, and sees the same tree, but from a different perspective. Success happens when they decide to come over and stand at your window for a little bit. You discuss what you both see. Then, maybe you go…
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Spring cleaning the inbox
This post is for those of you, who like me, have a particularly full inbox. Here’s a useful technique: search for the keywords of common newsletters, receipts, and marketing emails. Then bulk check them off, mark them as read, and archive them. You can do this with dozens (or, in my case, hundreds) of emails…
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Self expansion
Or self fulfillment, or whatever the opposite of self defeat is, here’s what it sounds like: Jay-Z was the owner of an NBA team, the Brooklyn Nets. He was proud of this, and bragged about it constantly. Eventually, the news came out that he owned a fraction of 1% of the Nets (1/15th of 1%).…
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The intermediate hump
When you’re young, you just do stuff. Because you don’t have much experience, you’re a beginner, and you have nothing to lose, it’s hard to overthink. As you gain experience and expertise, it’s easier to shoot down ideas quickly. When you’re in the intermediate hump, you experience being in the groove of shooting down ideas,…