In Praise of the Home Office
Check out this excellent article by Mike Sager on the joys, freedoms, and monotonous nature of working from home.
Continue Reading ›March Reading: ‘Deep Work’ by Cal Newport
This month’s book is a long-overdue pick (if you haven’t read it already). Moreover, it’s the perfect follow-up to last month’s book, The Dip. March’s reading is Deep Work, by Cal Newport. The whole hypothesis behind Deep Work is this: The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time
Continue Reading ›How to Make the Most of Your Time
Over on The Art of Manliness, Brett and Kate McKay wrote an excellent article about the “Possibilities in Spare Moments”.
Continue Reading ›February’s Reading: ‘The Dip’ by Seth Godin
For February’s Book Club, we’re reading through The Dip by Seth Godin. This book is 10 years old, and I’d argue that it’s even more relevant now than it was when published in 2007. I listened to the audio version during my recent train ride up to Chicago a few weeks ago. The audiobook is
Continue Reading ›The Basecamp Way To Work: Workshop Retrospective
This half-day workshop in Chicago had a massive impact on my approach to building a business, managing my time (and the time of those I work with), and more.
Continue Reading ›Ira Glass on Taste vs Talent
When trying to get moving toward a goal, project, business, etc. it can be frustrating. Especially so when you’re on the threshold of a new project and you see where you are right now and you compare it to where you hope to go, and it feels unsurmountable. Why spend a disproportionate amount of time
Continue Reading ›How to Get Time For Your Projects
Between ideas, time, and focus, which do you have the most of?
Ideas, right?
We all have more ideas than time. Myself included.
Continue Reading ›Build Better Defaults
As you may know, I’ve been working for myself from home for since 2011. And even still, I’m terrible at estimating how much time I need to spend on a particular task. At first, my bad time estimations would frustrate my wife. She’d ask me how long until I was done working and I’d think
Continue Reading ›How to Show Up Every Day
How do you keep focused doing the things that matter even when they’re a grind? Reader Alan N. just recently asked me this question and it’s an excellent one. Most of the time, the things that matter are a grind. Why is that? It seems unfair that the most important work is often mundane and
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