As the world outside our control gets grimmer, it’s easy to let our thoughts run wild. The noise in our mind can become deafening. Here’s how I work on quieting it.

It was a race against time: figure out how the heck to get a livestream going with only a few minutes before start time. Learning new skills can be quite a rush.

I love the quirky rituals of baseball. We all need some rituals in our work life as well. Rally caps on the next Zoom meeting!

While some of us literally need beard oil, all of us need figurative beard oil from time to time. Call it 80/20, optimization, or a life hack; there are often little things that can make a big difference.

Like compound interest and other long-term strategies, making time for foundational work pays huge dividends over time. Make time in your work for it and you’ll be surprised at the difference you see.

On 2020-10-25 I updated my Now page.

Is there competition that we have to deal with? Absolutely. How much is there? Not nearly as much as you think.

It’s funny how different tools we use for work provoke different reactions in us. Even email, our collective dreaded foe, can be the right tool for the job.

When the world has been turned upside down, we can find normalcy in simple things like playing together in the park.

Setting up systems is important. Once that’s done the next step is to use the system so we can adjust it based on experience.