So, this is an article all about how, life got flipped turned upside down… No, wait, nevermind. Bad idea.Seriously though, I was about to try and put some preface onto this to take the sting off, so I can tell myself that people were warned and if...
There’s an old story that goes like this:Once upon a time, there was a boy who ate too much sugar. His mother, who wanted him to stop, thought that if the boy wouldn’t listen to her, then perhaps he would listen to his idol, Mahatma Gandhi.So she...
In addition to working on the newsletter and CD, during the last couple days I’ve been working on some “framework” issues on the book.When I was writing the first version, each chapter was an adventure unto itself, with no particular standard way of...
So I’m late once again putting out my monthly newsletter and CD… and don’t even get me started on how late the book is.I fight with myself about this stuff all the time, because on the one hand, I want to be neat and timely and well-organized and...
For the last year or two, I’ve been trying hard to understand the real difference between naturally successful people and naturally struggling people. That is, why do some people seem to have so few problems getting things done and going after...
I just wrote my first article for LessWrong.com: Spock’s Dirty Little Secret.It’s about how I learned the limits of logic, and the importance of emotion to actually making decisions or getting anything done. I wrote it more for the current audience...
So a couple nights ago, it’s Valentine’s Day, and Leslie and I are talking about what – if anything – we’re going to do that evening. Eat out, eat in? Go to a movie? A show? What?And as we’re lying there in bed, throwing options back and forth...
I was in the middle of planning another revision of Thinking Things Done’s chapter 7, when I stumbled across a year-old email from Mind Hackers’ Guild member Mike Brown.In it, he mentioned an article he’d run across, talking about how some scientist...
When I was a kid, I thought superheroes were awesome. And I wanted to be one, ’cause then I could wear a cool costume, fight for the right, protect the innocent and all that kind of thing.But in the last few years, as I’ve been studying the...
I wasn’t real happy with myself this evening.The MindShift workshop – the first one of the new year – wasn’t going as well as I would’ve liked. We had a lot of new members, but the topic I’d chosen was a rather advanced one, and I found myself...
I was originally planning to write this as a regular blog article, but since one of my resolutions is to do more videos this year, here it is in video form: the top 3 mistakes that cause 88% of all new year’s resolutions to end in failure: If you...
Writing Thinking Things Done is probably the hardest project I have ever undertaken in my entire life. Not because the writing itself is difficult, or because of my ridiculously ambitious goals for the book. But rather, because the project itself...
