Identity

18 Sep 2024

The consequences of your commitment

Unless you're making trade-offs that channel your time, energy, attention and money into your priorities and away from competing demands, they aren't your priorities. They're hopes and wishes.

23 Aug 2024

Put your bloody phone down

You're an adult, and you control your time and attention. Put down the damn phone.

1 Aug 2024

An existential crisis about books, mortality and David Bowie

12 Jun 2024

How and when to quit things (and how to do it well)

Why you should leave before it's bad, end good things and not let guilt hold you back - and how to do it well.

28 Dec 2023

How to find your purpose: 7 questions from Mark Manson

If you don’t have the resolve and determination to do good sh*t, leadership is not for you.

7 Dec 2023

Be yourself to beat burnout

Burnout is killing us - but the answer lies within us. Are you owning your reality?

7 Nov 2023

Nurture a network of freaks

The company you keep will change who you are as a person. Choose carefully.

24 Oct 2023

You deserve this. Bye.

What to do when other people are negative or jealous about your achievements.

17 Oct 2023

Two unusual questions to help you understand yourself (and your work)

You probably know what you want to do. You might to ask need some different questions. Here's two.

12 Oct 2023

Pay yourself first: a no-bullshit sequencing guide to your days and life

You're a living, breathing miracle. Your happiness, peace and enjoyment has intrinsic value. You weren't put here to work, and you don't have to suffer to earn joy.

7 Sep 2023

'AHA'! meet: the Ambitious High Achiever

Some people are wired for ambition and achievement. If that's you, you will probably suffer, until you change your internal dialogue.

23 Aug 2023

You don't know how great you can be: expand your possibilities

You don't know how good you are, until you lean in, learn and make increasingly finer distinctions. It all starts with a leap - which you've done before.

9 Aug 2023

What to do with criticism: who to listen to, and who to ignore

If you don't want their outcome, don't accept their input.

2 Aug 2023

Living your values is the hardest and easiest path

You can't decide how other people live, but you can be true to yourself. Bonus: You'll sleep better.

27 Jul 2023

How to learn from your mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes, especially when they’re doing something worthwhile. It’s what you do next that counts. Here's how to learn from your mistakes.

14 Jun 2023

Take big bets on a vague long game

Life's not chess. Do risky stuff with lots of potential if you want a more interesting life.

7 Jun 2023

Don't stumble over something behind you

Turns out, the biggest thing holding you back is you, and your shit. DAMN IT.

19 May 2023

Saving time

This week's Friday Flurry goes deep on Jenny Odell's new book, and gets a bit meta. What is time, what is it for, and how healthy is your relationship with it? Is that your fault? (Spoiler: no.)

17 May 2023

On being done before you've started

Are you playing to win, or playing to play?

10 May 2023

Remember who it's all for

If you waste your effort appealing to the wrong people, you won't connect with the people who matter most.