A New Year is upon us, and it's got me feeling frisky! (Happy New Year, btw 🥳) No, I didn't do a Dry January. No, I didn't set an unachievable physical goal. (I'm far from surfing overhead waves on a short board.) And no, I didn't set a single...
Human beings do some silly behavioral stuff. Let's begin with the story of four Wall Street Bankers power lunching at the esteemed NYC Bistro Balthazar. Fresh off of a gi-normous M&A deal, they order the Mouton Rothschild 1989 wine at an eye-popping price point of $2,000....
"So why do you make money?" My question is often met with a dismissive stare. As if the answer is so obvious, that the question isn't even worth asking. It's one of the first questions I ask during my coaching onboarding process. Yet scrappy founders, law...
The word leverage evokes the imagery Bankers Gone Wild. There are the Barbarians who stormed the gates of RJR Nabisco during the 1980s leveraged buy out. There are the Failed Geniuses from Long-term Capital who leveraged Russian Bonds that ended up defaulting in 1998. And...
Editor's Note (12/20): After writing this post, I later read that Newport wrote on his blog that despite the headline, his article was not "about David Allen’s productivity system, which I really admire." "Who wouldn't want the cheat codes?" My friend (we'll call him Taylor) was perplexed. We...
You've already hopped on the bandwagon for the Notion productivity app and are using it for note-taking and managing your to-dos. But using it for your team's big picture project management has been one step too far. Thankfully, Notion's most recent update offers an exciting...
Tim Urban has a simple equation for measuring happiness. Give it a spin, you'll be surprised with its accuracy. That dinner reservation you had to book exactly 30 days in advance? That long-awaited family reunion? The next Kanye album? (Yawn) The formula is shows us how our happiness (and...
It's the week of election day in the United States. For some inexplicable reason, you woke up inspired and energized. So jazzed about the world and its potential, that you decided to set two goals for yourself. The first goal would take place over one day. Tomorrow,...
Two icons of American literature were once partying at a billionaire's lavish mansion on Shelter Island. Kurt (Vonnegut) turns to his friend Joseph (Heller) and says: "Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your...
There are a few time-tested to piss off the Internet. You can get tangled up with Beyonce's Beyhive. You can question if FIRE is worth it. And you can say that starring Gmail messages can't replace using a dedicated task manager. I learned the last one the hard way...