There’s a saying that hell is meeting the person you could have become. …As in one day you meet the best-timeline version of yourself and realize you’ve squandered your newly-seen-as-meager existence. “Aww, he’s so great and I’m crap and wasted my life” you would think. …And that would be your own personal hell. Except I’d like to argue that a truer hell is to live constantly worried about keeping…
I overdid it on my AI-code production line. So often, designing things is overdoing them and then bringing them back down… once the suffering has been noticed. I wanted to solve the problem where: I ask AI to do a thing → …bleep bloop… AI says the thing is done. But it’s not done. And now I play AI whack-a-mole. In this case I wanted AI to write tests, then fulfill them with code—which sounds…
Thought I would share a few recent breakthroughs. It's been said that finding inner peace isn't about doing something new but rather doing less and connecting with what we already are. It's described as a wordless experience that can't be described so much as pointed to. A teacher of mine, Joe Hudson's favourite pointer is to 'Drop the resistance'. While the phrasing 'drop the resistance' is a…
Welcome! If you're anything like me, you're looking for a system that helps you feel focused and on top of things. Many productivity systems create resistance and get in our way. Our habits break, we feel shitty. There's a stress loop that forms and we stop enjoying what we're doing. If you're feeling anxious about your productivity, your organization, your focus, or your habits, Leo Babauta's…
How I use a few minutes each day + ~30 minutes each week to make sure nothing falls through the cracks Two or three weeks ago, I rebuilt my tasking setup. I had let it break and decided to be ok with that. I chose to be comfortable with the broken state of things and simply observe the consequences. With that knowledge, I could rebuild my system with only what is valuable. Being among the second…
I used to think my wants needed to be explained. Like all of my feelings. Like most western people, I've appointed my brain as the judge and manager of my entirety, and of everything around me. I want whatever my brain says. My mind is logical. It knows what is rational and what isn't. It knows when something is dangerous. Millions of years of evolution have created my brain. It prevents me from…
An arrangement of notes I took during the Art of Accomplishment Course: Artistry requires self awareness; Your consciousness comes through in every product you create. When we use a product, we are consuming also the consciousness of it's creators; Consciousness is part of creation, this is what makes it an art form. If a product is made in scarcity and fear, we'll feel that when we use it.…
🧠💗🦸♂️ Our 3 Intelligences Today we'll delve into the much overlooked idea that we have more than 1 intelligence. Let's start with the obvious one... 🧠 The Brain Culturally, Western society values analytical intellect highly. One of the reasons is that it is strongly associated with control. If we know what something is, and we know all of the trivia about it, then we can predict what it will…
For the better part of the past 2 years, I was the Flow Manager at a company that guided clients through digital transformation, helping each of them move into the future of work. Many people have asked me: "Mitch, what the F*** is a Flow Manager?" Good news: while there, I wrote a post: What my goals were What I learned while fulfilling them The good people there were kind enough to let me use…
The mind trap is simple: The way to "solve" emotional issues is to let them go but this isn't actionable advice; they seem to come right back When we are caught up in our thoughts we are not present and we miss out on life. Eventually, we build up a deep sense of subtly missing out. Thoughts come from emotions, and as our emotions build up over time, so do our thoughts Because these senses are so…
How to Get to Your Goals Today I wanted to talk about achieving our dream lives, but I'm not just here to philosophize (maybe we'll go back to that next week). I'm going to show you how I started with my dream life and broke it down into high level focuses, and areas where I will exert my energy. This process should be done at least annually; quarterly high-level reviews are a great idea as well.…
Some basic automation in Integromat. Suggestion, when you save your tweet, you may want to make the title something like: Tweet by *Author Name* | *Date* If you look through the dynamic tweet data thats available, you should be able to find any of the tweet's metadata you'd like to use.
This one is slightly advanced: if you're working in a tool that doesn't offer templates *cough* Roam *cough* then text expansion can cover a lot that gap for you. Credit to Nat Eliason who gave me the idea (it's in his very solid Roam course ). Nat suggested textexpander.com which seems solid. Since I'm not on iPhone, and it won't sync between windows and android, I couldn't get myself to spend on…
Welcome, this post is m eant to help you streamline your setup for managing your tasks, projects, and life areas. To follow the video, here are some of the principles I build around: Invisible work is the enemy of our inner peace and flow. Work items we hold in our heads and don't write tend like to wait until we're engaged in some other activity before assaulting the backs of our brains. In…
Inner Peace sounds great. We tend to be pretty aware of outer peace, which we know because most people are easily disturbed by noises, smells, or moving visuals in our environments. What's incredible is that most of us have a neurotic person chattering non-stop in our heads. Worse, we listen to all of its advice, without even wondering about its track record. If this was an external person, who…