Task Management For The Military
I think a lot about task management. Software engineers have made tremendous progress ...
Why Trump Won
Donald Trump won each of the seven battleground states, turning the entire blue wall red ...
The Laws Of Less
At some point, I suspect this blog will just be a regurgitation of Cal Newport's own blog ...
The Cult Of Optimism
There's a lot to life that's beautiful and worth being happy about. Love, good food, puppies ...
Business Ethics Or Just Ethics?
I'm currently taking a class on compensation. One of our recent classes was on ESG ...
Slow Productivity
For those who are new here, I'm a fan of Cal Newport. He's a computer science professor ...
The Goldfinch
I first heard of The Goldfinch when it was highly recommended by a high school English ...
Slow Entrepreneurship
Cal Newport would facepalm if he found out I was working on a startup. The life of a ...
Contradictions
Peter Thiel’s legendary interview question is, “What important truth do very few people ...
Capture, Configure, Control
These are the three pillars of Cal Newport’s time management system. In this clip from ...
Reality: Bottom-Up VS Top-Down
I recently watched Prometheus for the first time. One particular scene stood out to me ...
Can't We Disagree More Constructively?
The title of this post is the title of the last chapter of Jonathan Haidt’s 2012 book, The ...
Thinking About Consciousness
Marvin Minsky was a mathematician and computer scientist who co-founded MIT's ...
I Don't Like Social Media
I was on the metro in DC a few days ago. It was around 5pm and the sun was setting. I ...
The Physics of Information
Newtonian physics describes what happens in systems that have large masses and slow ...
First 50 Mile Ultramarathon
Riffle Ford Aid Station, mile 42. A volunteer asked me if I needed anything. I tried to focus...