You Can Virtually Visit These Vacation Destinations From Your Couch
...If spending more time at home lately has you itching to travel, you’re not alone...
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Recommended Book
...the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded our ability as individuals to properly deliver it to people—consistently, correctly, safely...
Beyond the Inbox: Rules for Reducing Email
...Immediately move obligations out of your inbox and into role-specific repositories...
All models are wrong, some models are useful
...By definition, the model for your problem, your organization, your opportunity–it’s not actually the thing being studied, it’s a simplified version of it...
Lessons from Keith Rabois Essay 3: How to be an Effective Executive
...Running yourself...Running your team...
Stealing Fire - Recommended Book
...When [you] are juggling time, you borrow from tomorrow, and tomorrow you have less time than you have today...It’s a very costly loan...
7 Ways to Get a Good Night’s Sleep, According to Neuroscience
...Unfortunately, thanks to a host of disruptions and diversions, including electric lighting, cell phones and laptops, longer work hours, anxiety, alcohol, and caffeine use, about half of adults sleep less than seven hours a night...
Pickle Chips
...Serve with a side of Ranch or Bleu Cheese Dressing for dipping...
Working from home? 7 smart tips to help you get more done
...but if you are stuck inside and still need to do your job, it’s important to set up a productive shop...
The Algebra of Happiness - Recommended Book
...The slope of the trajectory for your career is (unfairly) set in the first five years post-graduation. If you want the trajectory to be steep, you’ll need to burn a lot of fuel. The world is not yours for the taking, but for the trying. Try hard, really hard...
Your Response to Mistakes Defines You
...Mistakes are bad, no doubt, but not learning from them is worse. The key to learning from mistakes is to admit them without excuses or defensiveness, rub your nose in them a little, and make the changes you need to make to grow going forward. If you can’t admit your mistakes, you won’t grow...
The Germ-Cleaning Power of an Open Window
...fresh air is generally a great way to rid your space of pathogens. Open a window and let the breeze blow those germs away...
Today
...We only get it once...
Factfulness - Recommended Book
...We tend to assume that all items on a list are equally important, but usually just a few of them are more important than all the others put together...Fear plus urgency make for stupid, drastic decisions with unpredictable side effects...
On Productivity
My philosophy for achieving this goal can be reduced to three simple rules: Do fewer things. Do them better. Know why you’re doing them.
These No Bake Energy Bars Look Delicious, are Super Easy to Make
...Making your own homemade energy bars can be as simple or complicated as you want, and this recipe is as simple as it gets...
Do Something Syndrome
...Doing something isn’t the same as getting results. The problem is we convince ourselves that our only options are to do something or do nothing. We forget the third option, gathering more information...
Great By Choice - Recommended Book
...10Xers exercise productive paranoia, combined with empirical creativity and fanatic discipline, to create huge margins of safety. If you stay in the game long enough, good luck tends to return, but if you get knocked out, you’ll never have the chance to be lucky again. Luck favors the persistent, but you can persist only if you survive...
The Danger of Comparing Yourself to Others
...There is one thing that you’re better at than other people: being you. This is the only game you can really win...
Toward perfect
...It’s foolish to wait until you’ve made something that’s perfect, because you never will. The alternative is to continue to move toward your imaginary ideal, shipping as you iterate...
