You WISH You Were A Honda Motor

  It’s become a major ambition in the personal dev world to relentlessly optimize every aspect of your life. It’s not enough to optimize your business, your finances, your exercise regime, but you should also optimize your meals, your recreation, and your sleep.   Man is not a Honda Engine   I know it goes… [Continue Reading]

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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Breaking Up With Non-Priorities.

It’s taken me a long time to admit that every thing I do necessitates me saying no to a dozen other things. It’s just not a priority. It’s not that it isn’t cool, fun, or worthwhile, it’s just that I have a limited amount of attention, and it can’t go there. And yet, it’s so… [Continue Reading]

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Tempo Giusto

Italian has given me many excellent words. Words like chiaroscuro, to express the worth of our darker sides. Words like sprezzatura, the codification of effortless coolness that is so damaging to the process of growth.   And now tempo giusto. It means: Just the right speed.   Because we have a little problem, as humans… [Continue Reading]

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You’re Not a Hero. Boo-Frickety-Hoo.

I’m watching The Wire right now. It’s powerful. It’s challenging. It makes you think.   I fucking hate it.   David Simon, how dare you make me care about these people and then not at least give me the foolish comfort that it will all work out in the end? This is a tried-and-true Hollywood… [Continue Reading]

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The Myth of “Hard Work”

I want to talk about the myth of hard work.   Wait. That doesn’t sound right. Hard work is real. The myth is the idea that working hard – specifically if you work hard enough you will succeed. This is treated with the certainty of mathematical principles. It’s even framed in simplistic turns of phrase,… [Continue Reading]

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