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I’ve got a confession. I’ve been mailing it in on the blog the last several days. I’ve published my daily posts on schedule, but the content has been pretty weak, more about checking the publish box than really writing anything. And I’m doing it again today. But it works for me. Most things aren’t worth… Continue reading When Mailing it in Works for Me

I’m on the road with the family the next four days, driving from Oklahoma to San Francisco. Gonna be a bit crazy, but I’m committed to daily blogging so I’ll fit it in one way or another. I love driving across the country. There are so many cultures inside the American meta-culture. They all share… Continue reading Churning Them Out

A lot. Words are like magic. If properly wielded, they confer the ability to own a thing. I didn’t put a lot of thought into company names, even after creating Praxis. The name Praxis came to me all of a piece with the idea for the company. It was a package deal in one of… Continue reading What’s in a Name?

One of the things that makes hip hop great is that songs are a productive embodiment of emotions. You have the dis-track, the rap battle, the stick-it-to-the-haters song, the nobody-believed-in-me album, and the stop-begging-for-my-money-and-attention verse, and so on. Rappers deal with beefs and frustrations through their art. The product they make is also their therapy.… Continue reading I Wish My Work Was More Like Hip Hop

Tried something new.  No posts for almost a week.  For the first time in years, it actually felt good.  Daily blogging is a therapeutic discipline for me, like running for some people.  It’s hard and inconvenient, but I don’t feel right until I do it, and I get a little high every time. But I… Continue reading Level Up

It’s the small stuff. I’ve never been good at massive, long-focused, epic tasks.  I’m impatient, bore easily, and prefer ‘done’ to perfect. I’m restless too, and easily discontented.  I’m a fan of discontentment in general (see here), but in a given day, it’s hard to get as much good work done if you’re unsettled from… Continue reading The Power of Feeling Good

I’ve always liked the description of faith not as believing something despite all evidence to the contrary, or believing something that conflicts with logic.  That’s just stupidity. To me, faith is continuing to act on a belief you formed using your full logical powers in a moment when emotion tempts you to do otherwise.  It’s… Continue reading Faith in Your Former Reason

We ran a workshop for Praxis participants and alumni last night on how to write fast.  I had a hunch that one of the reasons many of them had struggled to get blog posts out (participants all take on a daily blogging challenge in the bootcamp) quickly was because of option overload. You stare at… Continue reading The Tighter the (self-imposed) Constraint, the More Freeing

A handful of good books A network of intelligent, contentious friends A job (just about any job) Daily blogging for 30 days Five good podcasts Daily exercise Quora Amazon book reviews (writing or reading them) Signing up for the email workflows for every company you like A few weeks in a different country Cold call… Continue reading Things More Valuable Than My College Degree

One thing done is better than ten things planned. Yeah, if you’re building something bigger than daily survival, you’ll need to dream and plan.  But if you spend an entire day planning without doing or delivering anything, you’re going backwards while you plan your masterful forward attack. Even if you plan 99% of the day,… Continue reading Just Notch Something Off Today