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It or Nothing
Right now I’m writing every single day, averaging around 4000 words. I have a big batch of writing I want to do, and I’ve broken it up over 10 days. This sounds like a daunting task, but I find it dead simple to complete, primarily due to one tactic that I often use. I call…
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Simulating Others
One of the most common errors I see amongst well-meaning people are errors of awareness. They’re people with the ability to influence and they only want to help, but they lack a fundamental awareness of how others will react. This is particularly unfortunate because their efforts go misguided and can harm rather than help. The…
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Dating Advice for Women
I don’t usually give dating advice to women, but recently two of my female friends have been asking me a lot about dating, so I figured I’d consolidate some of the stuff we’ve been talking about here. Some of this stuff will apply to men, too, but for once I wanted to focus on the…
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Aloha 2018
Well, that’s another amazing year in the books! 2017 was an exceptionally great year for me, so much so that I thought that 2018 wouldn’t be able to stack up. But this year was even better than 2017 by a decent margin. As is now tradition, I’ll talk about some of the highlights of the…
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Aloha 2018
Well, that’s another amazing year in the books! 2017 was an exceptionally great year for me, so much so that I thought that 2018 wouldn’t be able to stack up. But this year was even better than 2017 by a decent margin. As is now tradition, I’ll talk about some of the highlights of the…
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Aloha 2018
Well, that’s another amazing year in the books! 2017 was an exceptionally great year for me, so much so that I thought that 2018 wouldn’t be able to stack up. But this year was even better than 2017 by a decent margin. As is now tradition, I’ll talk about some of the highlights of the…
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Aloha 2018
Well, that’s another amazing year in the books! 2017 was an exceptionally great year for me, so much so that I thought that 2018 wouldn’t be able to stack up. But this year was even better than 2017 by a decent margin. As is now tradition, I’ll talk about some of the highlights of the…
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What I Learned Starting Two Little Startups
For about three years I worked really hard on a startup called Sett. It’s a blogging platform that did a lot of things very different, and, in fact, is still the blogging platform that my blog runs on because I’m totally unwilling to give up the features that I’ve gotten used to. At the same…
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Standard Diagnostics
It’s always tempting to look for complicated or clever solutions to our problems. We love hacks and secret unknown solutions, rather than straightforward answers to our problems. There’s a time and place to get creative, but usually it’s best to exhaust the basics first. Whenever I’m not feeling my best, whether it’s a lack of…
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Not Caring What Others Think
I was telling a friend recently about how I was considering becoming a rapper. The gist of the idea is that I believe that I could make an excellent rap album if I dediated an entire year to it. To me the logic was inescapable: I have a lot of time, some base rap skills,…
