How To Stay Creative and Keep Shipping in the Digital Age

I sat next to this old man yesterday. He just sat there on the train and did absolutely nothing for an hour.

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We all have desires, dreams, and moon shots. But we needlessly waste time in the trenches of instant gratification.

Ideas can be sticky. Too sticky. The last few months I’ve been working on a book called Train Diaries, based off a series of posts on…

Build your own moat. The moat is your first line of defense, the fundamental skill(s) that you excel in and give you a chance at survival.

Doing the remarkable takes vision. The play materializes in your head before it actually gets executed.

The past is not necessarily a precedent for future actions.

Strategizing outlines how something could work. Drafting initiates work.

If you want something done, ask a busy person. They’re in flight, in flow of scheduling, prioritizing, and completing tasks both small and…

Learning is hard. This is partly because it’s too hard to remember stuff we don’t care about nor have no use.

Planning is really a rough sketch of how you want things organized and how you wish them to go.

Interests should evolve. As a kid, it was toys. As a teenager, it was video games.

Sometimes the best thing to do to activate inaction is to do the job poorly for the sake of getting it done.

There’s beauty in chaos. The outcome is limitless, ripe with multiple interpretations.

Cavities take time to build up. They don’t just form overnight.

If you leave open the responsibility to everybody, don’t be surprised of nothing gets done.

is a popular saying typically used for future desires but not necessarily things truly wanted.

No one wants to be in the same place forever. There’s always a better way of doing and thinking; perpetual change is happiness.

Theories prove nothing. Until theories get tested, they’re just talk.

There’s a little bit of a thrill in publishing online.

As kids, we get trophies even when we lose. As we get older, we discover that only winners get trophies.

Boredom is now the goal. Rarely do people avoid distraction to pursue a mindful moment.

We devour information. We over-prepare our day by scrutinizing the weather.

Listening is an essential part of learning. But then we need to do the work.

Create meaninfullness. Doing something together that matters is more powerful than artificially creating happiness.