Reading Time: < 1 minAs preached all throughout the book “The Infinite Game“, having a stated cause for your company is essential. However, if you become too confident in your own cause, you can see your competitors as being inferior and you might miss ways that you could improve. From the book: Cause Blindness is when we become so […]
Learning
What to read next?
Reading Time: 3 minWhen I finish a book, I often have a small struggle to determine what to read next. I largely addressed it last summer when I set up more meta data around my book library, but I’ve recently taken it a bit further. Thanks to tips from folks like Adam Walker, I now have a good […]
Personal note-taking is going to change dramatically
Reading Time: 2 minMy history of using different note-taking tools over the years is well-documented in this blog, including my recent move from Obsidian to Tana. While Tana has some great features and I really enjoy using it, it’s ultimately just a slightly better version of the tools that came before it and I may end up moving […]
Taming a wild mind
Reading Time: 2 minIf I tried to describe the way that I think, a “wild mind” is way down on the list of words I might use. I know people with wild minds, and they’re incredible to be around, but that simply isn’t me. However, a quote from Jon Acuff’s book “Soundtracks” gives a slightly different spin on […]
Work on development, not performance
Reading Time: < 1 minIt can be tempting to focus everything on performance and metrics. Whether I’m talking about myself and what I accomplish, or what I look for from my team. Ultimately, though, a stronger focus on development will lead to far better long-term results. In his book “The Coaching Habit“, author Michael Stanier words it very well: […]
Two enormous books
Reading Time: 2 minI do most of my reading on my Kindle, for reasons I’ve explained earlier. I enjoy the experience, and it makes it easy to migrate my highlights over after I’m done reading. From time to time I’ll pick up a “real” book, but it’s rare. In most cases, it’s only when I don’t have a […]
My favorite books from 2022
Reading Time: < 1 minOver the course of 2022, I read a total of roughly 70 books. I say “roughly” for two reasons: That being said, here are my favorites 10 from the year, in no particular order, with links to a post of mine with more thoughts on the book, and those posts all have links to buy […]
Use paper to assist thinking, but store everything digitally
Reading Time: 2 minFor about three years now, I’ve been loosely following the Zettelkasten method of taking notes (here’s what that is) and I’m quite pleased with how it’s going. I’m finding that having everything in one system (daily notes, book notes, meeting notes, church notes, other ideas, etc) is amazingly valuable. I’m currently using Tana for that, […]
Success is a lousy teacher
Reading Time: < 1 minIf you become successful, whether in business or athletics or somewhere else, you undoubtedly had some luck along the way, which is easy to forget about. Bill Gates and Kent Evans are great examples of that. Kent Evans? When he was 17, he was best friends with Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, but […]
Be Radically Relevant with your own name
Reading Time: < 1 minI recently finished Blake Howard’s new book “Radically Relevant“, I encourage you to pick up a copy. I easily consider Matchstic, the company he cofounded, to be one of the top branding companies in the country. Anything that comes from Blake is bound to be fantastic, and this book is no exception. The book is […]