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This interview with a navy seal breaking down a part of human nature with a renowned clinical psychologist is fascinating. This podcast interview between Jocko Willink and Jordan Peterson takes a look at how civility occurs. We want dangerous people that are disciplined. It's a temperament and a
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Today, we have too much information and technology, not too little. And information and tools are cheap and accessible. You can create value for others by curating information and sharing it specifically and personally. Sure, people share on social media, but it gets drowned out and is hard to consider
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We are always working on yesterday's commitments. And when we have committed, it's so easy to make those decisions sacred. Such reverence for our past commitments builds up continual clutter, drag and mediocrity in our work and lives. Without knowing it, we are managing many subpar
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I like to keep two checklists that I execute to keep my business moving: 1. Weekly Checklist - Actions that have to get done each week for operations 2. Daily Checklist - What is foundational to my personal and business goals Business tends to run on a weekly cadence. The ritual of
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When we are buried in the details of our work, it's hard to look around and see connections to worlds outside ourselves. We can be talking to the same people within our crowd, read the same blogs, and look at the world through a myopic lens. Some of
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“The main thing Is to keep the main thing the main thing.” ~ Stephen Covey Keeping on the rails is so hard when our brain loves to pull us to distractions. It's not only the distractions, but we are barraged by other people's demands and priorities continually.
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You may have to build a business with 100 employees. Maybe a 1,000. That's the manpower tax to help get your product into the hands of your customer. Instagram had 13 employees serving 30 million users at a $500M valuation at one point. That's leverage.
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There is such a thing as decision fatigue. Your willpower and ability to make effective decisions changes over the course of a day from mental weariness. When it comes to trying to respond and keep up with the demands of knowledge work, it's hard to stay sharp and
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I don't do grand openings. If you have an idea, skills and the hard work to persist, simply get your first customers and start serving them. This idea that we are anything special out in the marketplace of hundreds of thousands of options is absurd. You have to
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The Effective Executive I side with Drucker. I do not think that managing other people is adequately proven. Most of the conversation I have experienced about work is complaining about employees and managers. The one thing I can control is my own effectiveness. I work hard to improve my habits
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Principles prevail in a world of chaos. Much of life is indeed chaos. I think the importance of collecting and testing your mental models - how you problem solve and approach the world - is critical to drive success. The 80/20 rule can help you focus on what has the best
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There is an irony about free markets that the collective participates in. On the one hand, we have massive choice in many categories. On the other hand, over time, we have a winner-take-all outcome. Over time, people consolidate and choose the best. We don't have all