I believe life balance doesn’t come so much from how you work, but how you rest. Unless you are working 80 hour workweeks in a toxic environment, the answer to the level of balance you have between life and work isn’t going to come from how you spend time in the office but what you […]
What Are Your Goals?
I enjoy receiving reader comments, either through the comment form at the bottom of my posts or through e-mail. Occasionally I’ll get an e-mail from someone asking for advice in solving a problem or for more resources of information. I’ve found these little glimpses to be helpful in knowing where to take the content of […]
Friday Links 07-06-01
From the Web Thinking Errors – A good look at the psychological errors in reasoning. These biases seem to plague our thinking but can’t be controlled. Here’s two: Conjunction Fallacy – The probability of two events happening simultaneously must be lower than each one happening on it’s own. For example, if I asked you the […]
Be Yourself, Law of Attraction and Other Pieces of Bad Advice
I give a lot of advice on this blog. I’d like to think that some of it is good, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading it. Part of giving advice, however, means you need to receive a lot of it. And a good amount of the advice I get from friends, books or blogs, is crap. […]
I'm a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, podcast host, computer programmer and an avid reader. Since 2006, I've published weekly essays on this website to help people like you learn and think better. My work has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, TEDx, Pocket, Business Insider and more. I don't promise I have all the answers, just a place to start.