I spent forty-two hours in October 2021 migrating 1,200 notes from Notion to Obsidian. Forty-two hours. I tracked it on […]
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Stop writing novels to executives who don’t have time to read them
I’m going to be honest: most of the advice you read about emailing CEOs is written by people who have […]
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Stop trying to balance your life: Why integration is the only way out
I was sitting in a Starbucks on the corner of Wacker and Adams in downtown Chicago—it was October 2019, right […]
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Your To-Do List is a Graveyard of Good Intentions and You Need to Stop
The to-do list is a lie. It’s a comfort object for people who are terrified of actually doing the hard […]
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Why I deleted my $200 productivity setup for a $2 notebook
I spent three weeks of my life—actual hours I will never get back—learning how to “link” notes in Obsidian. I […]
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Why I stopped being cheap and started paying for software that actually works
I spent four hundred dollars on a piece of software last Tuesday and I didn’t even blink. Five years ago, […]
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Why your 60-hour work week is actually making you worse at your job
On Tuesday, October 14th of last year, I sat at my desk for exactly nine hours and forty-two minutes. I […]
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The Arrival Fallacy: Why I hit my ‘dream’ salary and felt like garbage
I remember sitting in my car in the parking lot of a glass-and-steel office building in Austin back in 2019. […]
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Why your morning routine is failing and why the shutdown ritual matters more
I’m going to be blunt: your 5 AM morning routine is probably a performance you’re putting on for an audience […]