If you’re getting advice, who should you listen to: doers or thinkers? If you can take the best parts of both, you’ll make better decisions than following only one kind.
Explore or Exploit: The Hidden Decision that Guides Your Life
Go with the safe choice, or try something new? This decision hides behind many of your most important life choices. Here's how to decide wisely.
Book Recommendation: Indistractable
My review of Nir Eyal's wonderful book, Indistractable. Get it today and take control over your life and focus.
How to Think About Your Life’s Work
What does it mean to get "better" at creative work? Cultivate your own sense of taste, and then use that to drive the work you create.
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.