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A collection of 54 issues

The Flattening

I was spurred to start blogging regularly because of (1) a nagging concern that we’re increasingly flattening the human experience into one-dimensional soundbites, and (2) a questionably-founded belief that I have something valuable to say about that. Sometimes, the richest company in the world energizes the conversation for you.

Habitual Mindfulness

I learned recently that James Clear sells a copy of Atomic Habits every 15 seconds. That's wild. I've been familiar with the theory behind the book for a long time, but I hadn't actually read it until recently. I'd like to think

Starting With Gratitude

What’s something I’m grateful for today? This is the question at the top of my daily log. It’s the question I start with before kicking off the workday, answering emails and hopping on calls. This is a relatively new addition to my workflow, but I suspect it

Deep Work Experiment

What would the Warrior-Scholar Project team be able to accomplish if we each blocked off four hours of distraction-free, focused work time every week? After reading, thinking, and writing about deep work, this was the question I came to. And after embracing an organization-wide deep work experiment, I have the

Productivity ≠ Self Worth

'Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” - Ferris Bueller Societally, we venerate productivity. Or at least a flattened version of it. Amanda Mull, staff writer at The Atlantic, wrote recently, “Americans invest personal productivity

Appreciating a Disaster

Welcome! If you enjoy the blog, consider subscribing and forwarding to a friend. Join me every Tuesday as I develop my working theory of Three-Dimensional Productivity. A few weeks ago, I went to a concert with my mom. It was a disaster. Being the odd person I am, I loved

Your Contextual Value

Last week, a trip to the doctor led me to reflect on how one can provide their maximum and unique value. This week, I'm thinking about how the value that one brings depends heavily on the situation. Your value can be context dependent, which means that the more

Your Maximum & Unique Value

Ask any professional paid to provide me some type of service, and I think you'd hear something similar: I am a strange client who takes things off track (other than with lawyers — I know what they charge). The other day, I had an appointment with a new primary

2023 Productivity Year in Review

In December 2022, I wrote my first annual productivity review. As I started drafting the 2023 version, I hesitated about framing it like this again. Life is about so much more than being productive, right? One of my professional foci is productivity. I love learning about productivity tools, trying out

Solitude

I am a person who practices solitude. The syntax of that sentence probably sounds off, even clunky. We’ll come back to that. One of the unexpected benefits of going to University of Michigan in 2010 to complete my undergrad (after initially getting rejected - a blog for another time)