Outcomes and tasks It’s difficult to spend the entire day working on outcomes. Sooner or later, there are tasks to be done, tasks we believe will get us to the outcome we seek. But it’s easy to spend the whole day on tasks, failing to recalibrate and ignoring the fact that the tasks might not be helping us […]
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The writer’s room It’s quite likely that your favorite TV show wasn’t written by a single person. There’s a room filled with professionals, bouncing ideas back and forth, provoking each other and creating a script. The songs on your favorite artist’s hit record might have been written by them, but the music involved other musicians, engineers, producers and […]
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Foggy mirror It’s easy to believe we have an accurate understanding of ourselves. After all, we spend a lot of time looking in the mirror. It might be worth wondering about why the mirror is deemed to be accurate at reflecting what we see as our flaws, real or metaphorical, but indistinct and a little fuzzy when […]
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It’s not a silly thing to do So many options, so little time. A friend asked if he should put his podcast on YouTube. After all, that’s how many people are consuming this sort of content, it’s low cost. The comments and subscriptions offer interesting tools for engagement, and it could grow their base. But just because something might be worth doing, […]
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Attention is a luxury good Luxury goods are special: they are scarce and expensive, and they earn us status with some folks because it shows that we paid more than we needed to. Luxury isn’t about quality, suitability or performance. Luxury isn’t a more accurate watch or a faster processor. Luxury is a marker that we can afford to do […]
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