You Are a Badass - Recommended Book
...If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse...
How to Be a Smarter Investor in Uncertain Times - from Blue Waters Wealth Advisors
...6 Secrets to Make You a Smarter Investor...
Can You Save Too Much in a Health Savings Account?
...Even if you used non-HSA assets to cover your healthcare expenses and leave your HSA money undisturbed until age 65, you could pull the money out tax-free for any reason, provided you've saved your receipts for the healthcare expenses you covered out of pocket in the years before that...
Choose a 'Benchmark Dish' to Evaluate New Restaurants
...My benchmark dishes are usually iconic dishes that represent their genre, and can give me a bit of insight into the restaurant or bar’s philosophy and style...
ALL Business is STILL Show Business - Recommended Book
...Begin thinking of how you will engineer the appropriate customer response at every step along the way...
The 3 Breaks You Need to Take Every Day
...the 3 breaks are physical, social, and spiritual(ish)...
Spiced Chickpeas and Greens Frittata
...This version turns greens and beans into a complete one-skillet supper...
It Costs What It Costs
...Reality is indifferent to our preferences. There is no such thing as a fair price. Stuff—life—costs what it costs. You either pay it or you don’t...
An Economist Walks into a Brothel - Recommended Book
...A risk is more likely to work out if you are seeking a reward you actually want. It sounds so obvious, but we often take risks just because we want change. And when we do that, we often lose, no matter what happens...
The benefits of note-taking by hand
...Handwritten notes are a powerful tool for encrypting embodied cognition and in turn supporting the brain’s capacity for retrieval of information. And secondly, when you take notes by hand, your hands create a robust external memory storage: your notebook...
Study finds that sleep restriction amplifies anger
...Feeling angry these days? New research suggests that a good night of sleep may be just what you need...
7 Items Your Estate Plan May Have Left Out
...If your goal is to look out for your loved ones, consider tackling these estate-planning additional jobs...
How to Be Here - Recommended Book
...But you don’t have to know the seventeenth step. You only have to know the first step. Because the first number is always 1...
Efficient or productive?
...Productive is the skill of getting the right things done, so that we accomplish what we set out to do in the first place. The work that matters...
Quinoa-Banana Muffins
...we generally disagree with the basic cooking instructions given on quinoa packages, which usually call for too much water, and might explain why you don’t like quinoa...
How To Be Successful
...Most people get bogged down in linear opportunities. Be willing to let small opportunities go to focus on potential step changes...
The Curse of Bigness - Recommended Book
...Microsoft had proven the mantra that good artists copy but great artists steal...
Fill Up Your Canteen
...Whenever things quiet down for a minute and finally start clicking; whenever a conversation with family and friends leaves you bathed in an intoxicating glow; whenever you find yourself stirred by an unexpected moment of beauty; drink it in...
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World
...The less rigid we are in our thinking, the more open minded, creative and innovative we become...
Selling your time
...Often, what we care about is the work done, not how long it took to do it...
