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Selling My Time Too Cheap: How Full-Time Year-Round Work Blinds Us To The Joys of Life
I sold my time at a bargain and did so for too long because I did not have any way to fully understand and value the benefits of not doing such a thing. This is the case for far too many people in today’s world and this state of affairs is only maintained because we ... Read more
The Inspiration Deficit – Or Why So Many Young People Still Crave More Challenging Work
I’ve talked to hundreds of people about their careers and aspirations over the past few years. The common theme: people are hungry. They want more interesting work, more ambitious environments, better leaders, and more chances to step up. These people are littered all over the world: India, Kenya, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Poland to name a ... Read more
Too Big To Think: Why Prestigious Institutions Stopped Generating Good Ideas
In the late 1960s the founder of Boston Consulting Group, Bruce Henderson, divided his company into three color-coded teams: red, blue, and green. These teams were instructed to compete against each other. He hoped that the experiment would generate new ideas for how to run a consulting firm. It worked. In a few years, Bill ... Read more
Don’t Find A Niche, Find A Mode
The promise of “finding a niche” online is one of arrival. You start dabbling on the internet in some mode of digital creation and feel frustrated. You don’t know what you’re doing and no one seems to be paying attention. If you can just figure out a better way to describe yourself, pick better topics, ... Read more
Ship, Quit & Learn – A Framework for Finding Work Worth Doing
How do you figure out what to work on? This is a question that holds a lot of people back from leaving their jobs. They rightly fear the existential dread that comes with an excess of time and lack of things to do. This often convinces many that taking a leap into the unknown is ... Read more
My “Creative Engine”: A Curiosity-First Second Brain Approach For Creating Online
Many people try to imitate the success of others, especially in the newfound “creator” paths that are emerging on the internet. They look at someone like me, with thousands of followers and a sizeable audience, and try to figure out what sorts of tactics I’m using and then copy them. This is something I call ... Read more
Finishing My Book, From Mexico to Taiwan to the US | 2021 Annual Review
2021 was an incredible year. Perhaps one of the best of my life. It was a year of writing my book, fully leaning into the opportunities that my path has opened up, preparing and moving to the US with Angie, starting to find more joy in day-to-day life, and the best year financially since being ... Read more
Do We Really Want Happiness? Lessons from Socrates, Kahneman & Maslow
Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize for his work on how the brain functions. Earlier in his career, he started studying happiness but ultimately decided to abandon it and work on something else. He felt that “people don’t want to be happy the way I’ve defined the term – what I experience here and now.” ... Read more
Designing Your Own Infinite Game In The Creator Economy
Once you’ve found success building and selling something on the internet, no matter how small, the incentives of the internet machine will nudge you to think that the most important thing is to optimize, scale, and grow. That may be the right path for you but I want to convince you that there might be ... Read more
“Ambition Is Frozen Desire” – Excerpt From David Whyte’s Consolations
David Whyte has become one of my favorite authors and Poets. His book, The Three Marriages, inspired me to embrace the “Pathless Path” and lean into the uncertainty of self-employment and solopreneurship. One of my favorite books of his is Consolations, which is a book of everyday words. In it, he describes what those words ... Read more