I lost a $12,000 contract on a Tuesday in 2021 because of a ‘quick’ note I took in Apple Notes….
I used to think that burning the candle at both ends was just a poetic way of saying you worked…
If you ask to “pick my brain,” I am probably going to ignore you. I’m not saying that to be…
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Malcolm Gladwell is a fantastic storyteller, but he’s done an absolute number on our collective sanity. The 10,000-hour rule—the idea…
It was October 2019, and I was sitting in a glass-walled conference room in a drafty office in Chicago, staring…
I spent 14 months working from a literal walk-in closet in a rented apartment in Chicago. It wasn’t some grand…
I remember sitting in a studio apartment in South Philly in 2018, staring at a blinking cursor. It was 11:42…
Specialization is for insects. I think Heinlein said that, and while he was a bit of a crank, he was…
I spent four hours on Tuesday, October 14th, 2022, color-coding a database in Notion. I was in a coffee shop…