Cal Newport and I are opening our Life of Focus course for a new session next week. Before we do, I’m sharing some lessons this week on how you can focus better in your work and life. Stay tuned! I think about my life as a series of projects. I think you should, too. Projects […]
What I Learned (and Unlearned) Reading 10 Books on Nutrition
Looking to eat better? Here’s some books to add to your shelf that helped me!
Food – Opening Update
I’m writing this on the first day of the fourth month in my year-long foundations project. The focus for this month is on food. See here for my previous months focusing on fitness, productivity and money. What we eat is a central foundation in life. Food provides the energy we use to live. It is […]
Money – Month-End Update
I’m now rounding out the third month in my year-long project to improve my foundations. This month’s focus was money. In particular, the keystone habit I asked students of my course to work on this month was setting up a system to track their expenses and reviewing it at least monthly. Monthly expense tracking has […]
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