Reading Time: 3 minI’ve been slowly migrating my notes from Obsidian to Tana, and part of that involves essentially visiting every blog post on here again (inside of my notes) to get things properly tagged. It’ll be wildly useful when I’m done, but it’s rather tedious right now. However, I’m getting a lot of value out of seeing […]
Learning
Four years of daily blogging
Reading Time: 2 minIt’s hard to believe that today makes four years since I started writing every day. It’s also amazing to me that my core purpose for blogging hasn’t really changed either. If anything, I’ve continued to dig even deeper into my reasons for doing this. In particular, I’m doing and more and more to give myself […]
I love talking to people about their favorite book
Reading Time: 2 minDepending on when you read this, we’re somewhere around 31 episodes into the Stacking Knowledge podcast and going strong. Every episode features me speaking with a guest about a business/life book that they got something out of, and the conversations have been phenomenal. The wisdom that my guests have brought has been amazing. In a […]
Self-education beats formal education
Reading Time: < 1 minFormal education is essential. Without understanding the basics (with “the basics” meaning “years of schooling”), you have no foundation on which to grow further. However, the further growth is where the real value lies. In his book “Selling in a Post-Trust World“, author Larry Levine shares a simple quote from Jim Rohn that says: “Formal […]
What do you do with those pictures of slides?
Reading Time: 2 minPart of our team just spent a few days at the Digital Summit conference here in Atlanta, and it was excellent. We picked up some great tips and ideas that we’ve already started to use, and I’m sure more will come out as we unpack further. My thought for today is “what does unpacking really […]
Chesterton’s Fence
Reading Time: 2 minWhenever someone is starting a new job, I always advise them to take it slow at the beginning. Understand the current setup, see how things work, and then later begin to make suggestions. With our newest hire at GreenMellen, I told her exactly that. She’s coming from another agency, and we’re very excited to learn […]
Reflecting on experiences
Reading Time: < 1 minWe all experience many things, and there is a lot to be learned from those experiences. The question is: how do you actually learn from them? As explained in Tara Jaye Frank’s book “The Waymakers“, it’s not the experience itself that creates the learning. She shares: John Dewey, American philosopher, educator, and cofounder of the […]
Interleaving your skills
Reading Time: < 1 minA few years ago I wrote about the idea of intentionally making some things more difficult and I recently discovered that this concept has a name: interleaving. The book “Hidden Potential” has some great examples of that: I assumed it would be ideal to practice one skill until you make progress, and only then move […]
Finding material to deploy attention
Reading Time: 2 minIn Daniel Kahneman’s classic book “Thinking, Fast and Slow“, he said something simple that I’ve been chewing on for a long time. He said: “Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.” The reason this stuck with me […]
Never stop doubting
Reading Time: 2 minI recently read the book “Superforecasting“, which shared the stories and processes of those that are able to make predictions far better than most people can. While there is a lot of nuance in the book, and it’s well worth reading, one theme that came up over and over was that the best forecasters never […]