Category: strategy

I’m starting to like these little thought experiments. The other day I talked about luck and acting as if it wasn’t there at all, behaving as if there was no such thing. Let’s see what happens when we do the opposite of this– in other words, if we considered ourselves lucky, how would we behave?…

The way I see it, there are only two directions– up and down. I used to say that it didn’t matter how fast you were going, as long as the direction you were going was up. Keep moving up, as slowly as you want, and you’ll get to a good place in your life. Don’t…

Have you ever been asked to sign an NDA? Non-Disclosure Agreements exist because of lack of trust between parties that need to discuss a subject– in fact, that’s the nature of any contract– to provide legal recourse in the case of non-compliance. Here’s the thing though. You introduce a contract because there’s friction in a…

If I was creating a website right now that was designed to become popular, it would be The Oatmeal. It’s utterly brilliant. It combines interesting factoids with tons of illustrations. Each page is evergreen content, and will probably still be looked at years in the future. Remember those Top 10 List sites a few years…

Taylor Davidson called it “my phrase” at Tribecon, but it isn’t really mine– it’s been used many, many times before. I started getting interested in it when I began doing Alexander Technique, which attempts to return your body to a natural, relaxed state through re-training (or “un”-training) you out of your bad posture habits. But…

Have you guys noticed yet that I love birds? I’ve just gotten back from a few trips, including NOLA for Tribecon and up North in Quebec for BitNorth. Both were really cool events. It’s become pretty evident over the time I’ve spent at conferences that your level of achievement is intimately connected to your social…

Hype dies. The channel does not. The problem with your 15 minutes is that it will end. Especially if you’re renting other people’s attention, it won’t last forever. You’ll become a has-been very quickly if this is all you do. For a long time, I didn’t blog or podcast very much. I just worked on…

I give change to pretty much everyone that asks for it on the street. This includes street performers. It’s a habit I’ve developed since briefly working for Homeless Nation, an organization that has gotten a lot of accolades over the years for its work in Canadian cities on behalf of their homeless population. Today though,…

God, this makes me mad. So, there is this massive selection bias that happens amongst some influencers on the web where they feel that good content will be found on its own. Why do they feel this? The same reason rich people think they deserve their wealth, of course; if they’re on top, they feel…