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17 Tabs Open

You have too many tabs open in your mind and can't focus. 17 Tabs Open gives you tools to heal your focus one read at a time.

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You don't need another focus app. You need a third space.

A third space is sort of, admittedly, a fancy/pompous way of saying somewhere outside of work or your home. You’ll realize what I’m essentially saying is “you need air.” That’s how important a third space is. But let me first back it up and walk you through this. Your focus is one of the most precious commodities out there right now, along with your energy. What you pour your focus and energy into…

Your Job Titles Are Not Impressive Anymore. We Don't Care

The Teams meetings were a drag this week. The usual chalkboard-inducing, high-pitched corporate talk. The phony smiles. Fake excitement about projects nobody actually cares about. And by the end of the call, I let out a loud, obnoxious sigh of relief. Though I wasn’t trying to be obnoxious. I felt like I’d just delivered my best Oscars performance. “I’m so excited!!!…" I nasily exclaimed. “I…

We Are All Suffering From Zoochosis

It’s 1992. And Bill Travers is analyzing three years of video footage from more than 100 zoos across North America, Europe, and the Far East. This footage would later, in 1993, be used for Born Free’s Zoochotic Report film. His observations would lead him to create a term that would increase awareness of this then-puzzling phenomenon: zoochosis.

Doing nothing is not the opposite of productivity

What is doing nothing to you? If you were to pose this question to most people today, many would define “doing nothing” as anything that does not generate money. Time without financial return is treated as a waste of time. Rest is only justified if it leads back to output. And hobbies are tolerated only when they can be optimized, branded, or monetized, which sadly has happened to me numerous…

Just read the damn book. Who cares about the format.

Not everything needs a debate

How quitting became my default setting (don't let it be yours)

“Hey, what happened to your planner business?” she asked suddenly as I sipped from the bitter cappuccino made by the amateur barista.

The Internet: I'm over it. And so are we all collectively.

Lately, I’m bored.