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Reading Time: 2 minA few days ago I shared that fantastic video from Bill Gurley, and I wanted to share one more quote from it. Much of the video discussed the late Bobby Knight, including this quote that stood out to me: “The key is not the will to win… everybody has that. It is the will to […]

Reading Time: 2 minIn reading the book “Freakonomics“, there were a lot of fascinated studies citied and this one really caught my eye. When Chicago Public Schools opened a lottery for students to apply to get into better schools, some students got selected and some didn’t. However, the main difference for the students ended up being that the […]

Reading Time: 2 minIt’s amazing to me how differently people see the world. Some look for the best in things, and some look for the worst. From a statistical point of view, the world is way better than most people tend to believe. There are certainly many problems to be solved, but we’ve never had a better place […]

Reading Time: < 1 minWriting daily can be tough. I’m about three years into daily blogging, and I still struggle quite a bit. The difference now is that I don’t wait to be inspired. Prior to 2020, I’d post “when I felt inspired”. This led to 14 posts in 2019, 9 in 2018, and similar numbers going back to […]

Reading Time: < 1 minUrgency and hurry can sound like doing the same thing, but deep down they’re quite different. A good example of this came from a post I shared earlier this year when I explained how calm can be faster. If your child falls and hurts themselves, you need to urgently get to the situation but if […]

Reading Time: 2 minIf you’re an Olympic-level diver, the “degree of difficulty” on your dives is very important. For the rest of us, not so much. When it comes to something like building a website, you can choose to use a tool like WordPress (like we do) to help with the basics, or you can choose to write […]

Reading Time: 2 minBack in the day when calling a company you’d often hear a messaging saying that “your call may be monitored”, which I suspect was true. We hear the same thing on those calls today, but it’s a lie — your call absolutely is being recorded and studied (and with AI, even moreso). As Seth Godin […]

Reading Time: 2 minI’m a big believer in focusing on processes over results. We all certainly want to have positive results from our efforts, but the focus should be on the process behind the effort and not on the final outcome. Last week I was playing a round of golf, and on the last hole I was at […]

Reading Time: < 1 minMany people pine for the “good old days”, but those days seem to be in a different decade depending on who is saying it. Kevin Kelly explains why in his book “Excellent Advice for Living“. He says: When someone tells you about the peak year of human history the period of time when things were […]

Reading Time: < 1 minIt can be interesting to think of ourselves as two people, and we often do it without realizing it. I’ve shared before how I often use that to my advantage by having the “other” Mickey deal with certain things. It’s a slippery slope, as if you put too much on your “other” self then you’re […]