Tag: Productivity

Sometimes it feels like I take my blog a little too seriously, probably because so many people read it and some of the topics I cover are serious. When it started I literally wrote strange rambles about every nap I took, and now I feel like every post has to have some practical use. As…

A little over a year ago a reader bought enough copies of Superhuman Social Skills to get a free one-hour coaching call. The call went well and I could tell that she was serious about making change. I hadn’t considered doing coaching on an ongoing basis, but she asked and offered me enough to make…

I switched to Linux a few years ago. Four, I think. It wasn’t my first time— I remember driving with my friend Phil to pick up a Slackware Linux CD in 1997, being very excited about how different it was, and then switching back to Windows a couple weeks later when I wanted my computer…

To break with my normal style of post, I thought this week I’d share some of my favorite software that helps me get work done on a daily basis. Because I use Linux it won’t all be applicable to you, but maybe some of the ideas will be, and a lot of the software is…

A few months ago I had a troubling thought: maybe I’ve forgotten how to be productive. I am not a naturally productive person. I skated by in school, putting homework off until the last minute, if I did it at all. After I left school I was reasonably productive with my gambling thing, but it…

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, it’s probably very obvious to you that I am terrible at marketing. My preferred method of marketing is to not do it at all and hope that good things happen. This generally works to some extent thanks to you, my readers. Over almost ten years I’ve…

I’ve been traveling consistently now for over eight years. In that time I’ve visited around seventy countries, many of them several times. But how I travel has changed considerably over those years. While I might think that there are some “wrong” ways to travel, I don’t think that there is one correct way to do…

One of two things is true: either you will experience chaos in life, or you are setting your sights drastically too low. With even medium-sized goals, you’re going to occasionally run into a time where you’ve underestimated a project, or someone has slacked and pushed work onto your plate, or a great opportunity arose and…

The past dozen or so years of my life have been dedicated mostly to learning and growth. Not totally singlemindedly, of course; I’ve traveled around and done fun things and have also put out a respectable body of work, but most of my focus has been on improvement. And I needed it. I learned social…

I can tell you one thing: I’m definitely not writing a blog post tomorrow. Two years ago I agreed to be accountable to a friend for writing a blog post every single day for two years. If I failed to do it, I would have to pay $10,000. I could skip once per month and…