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Weekly Question & Framework: September 29, 2023

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2023/09/28

Question: What am I certain of today that I'll laugh at in 10 years?Framework: The Bike Shed Effect.

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The 4 Types of Professional Time

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2023/09/26

I recently re-read an old Paul Graham essay that got me thinking about the composition of professional time—what "types" of time exist in our workdays and how we can find a more optimal balance across those types.I identified four types of professional time: Management, Creation, Consumption, and Ideation. Most of us have a lot of Management, a little bit of Creation, and almost no Consumption and Ideation.Use a color coding calendar exercise to deconstruct your current mix of time. Three

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Weekly Question & Framework: September 22, 2023

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2023/09/21

Question: What would you invest in today assuming you had to hold the investment forever?Framework: Survivorship Bias.

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7:56

The Dark Side of Big Goals

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2023/09/19

I just completed my first marathon in 2:57:31 just 6 months after I started running. By achieving the sub 3-hour marathon time, I had hit my Big Goal. It felt great, at first. But then came the rut, one which led to a fundamental change in how I'm going to think about goal setting and achievement in the future.Big Goals create a perfect storm for unhappiness. If we miss them, we feel like a failure. If we hit them, we feel a temporary satisfaction, followed by an odd darkness brought about

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3:58

Weekly Question & Framework: September 15, 2023

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2023/09/14

Question: The 1-Second Decision.Framework: Maximizers vs. Satisficers.

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The 80-Year-Old Life Decathlon

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2023/09/12

Dr. Peter Attia uses a framework with his patients called the Centenarian Decathlon to organize physical aspirations for life’s later years. The idea is to choose 10 physical tasks the person wants to be able to do at 100 and then reverse engineer the necessary actions in the present to achieve that future.Using a similar exercise to look at the broader scope of your life can be very helpful. What does your ideal life look like at age 80? Who are you with? What are you doing? How do you

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Weekly Question & Framework: September 8, 2023

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2023/09/07

Question: What does your perfect workday look like?Framework: The 3-3-3 Method.

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The Power of Thinking Differently

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2023/09/05

A Stanford business professor split her class into groups and gave each group $5 and 2 hours to generate as high of a return as possible. The losing groups bartered with the $5 or used the time to generate income. The winning group sold the ad space of the presentation time at the end of the challenge and generated a 12,000% return.When faced with a challenge with the potential for outsized rewards, we need to think differently. Three steps to think differently: (1) Avoid the distraction,

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Weekly Question & Framework: September 1, 2023

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2023/08/31

Question: If everything stays the same, what is the one change that would have the greatest impact?Framework: The Locksmith Paradox.

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10 Learnings from a Mastermind

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2023/08/29

Last week, I spent three days with a group of successful entrepreneurs on a retreat in Big Sky, Montana. I left the event with a new energy to grow and a lot of interesting, non-obvious learnings. This piece shares my 10 key learnings from the event.The learnings: (1) Freedom is the real goal, (2) Environment is everything, (3) Insecurity is natural, (4) Always know the game you're playing, (5) Create value with no expectation, (6) Owned distribution is a cheat code, (7) Success isn't

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Weekly Q&F: August 24, 2023

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2023/08/24

Question: What am I avoiding because it's too painful to address?Framework: Fundamental Attribution Error.

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3 Strategies for Mastering Stress

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2023/08/22

While we all want to live in a state of low stress, during certain moments, we need to learn to optimize our stress response—we need to learn to harness stress to our benefit rather than allowing it to derail us.The Yerkes-Dodson Law says that stress and performance are positively correlated, but only up to a certain point, after which more stress reduces performance.3 strategies for mastering stress: (1) Reframe threat into challenge; (2) Use science-backed breathing techniques to pull

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Friday Question & Framework: August 18, 2023

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2023/08/17

Question: If you woke up three years from now and were living your ideal life, what were the three things you did to get you there?Framework: The Pyrrhic Victory.

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6:09

The Art & Science of Luck

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2023/08/15

Theory: Our belief in our ability to create our own luck exposes us to more good fortune (or at least allows us to see the good fortune amidst a sea of bad).In an early 2000s study, Dr. Richard Wiseman found that lucky people came across "chance" opportunities, while the unlucky people seemed to miss them. Both groups had equal access to these opportunities, but the lucky group saw what the unlucky group tended to miss.Our daily thoughts, behaviors, and actions serve to expand or contract

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Friday Question & Framework: August 11, 2023

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2023/08/10

Question: Do I actually need more information, or do I simply need to act on the information I already have?Framework: The Identity-Action Grid

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Career Advice That Doesn't Suck

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2023/08/08

I recently got a message from a 22-year-old reader asking for career advice. Career advice is a topic area that I have always found interesting, probably because I feel it so often misses the mark. I take this as a challenge.I sat down and synthesized the advice I would have wanted to receive early in my career (or what I would tell my own son if he were just starting out).The 7 pieces of career advice everyone needs to hear: (1) Swallow the frog, (2) Do the old fashioned things well, (3)

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Friday Question & Framework: August 4, 2023

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2023/08/03

Question: Which thorns do you choose?Framework: The Question of Nine.

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The Retirement Trap

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2023/08/01

The Wall Street Journal recently released a visual breaking down how people spend their time in retirement. The visual shows that the majority of a retiree's time is spent on sleeping, relaxing and leisure, and watching television.Most of us create this beautiful image of what retirement will look like, but the reality is (likely) much different. Why? Well, the image we create is based on who we are today, while the reality will be based on who we are at retirement age.The traditional

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2:45

Friday Question & Framework: July 28, 2023

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2023/07/27

Question: What are the boat anchors in your life?Framework: Q1 relationships.

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How Will You Choose to Live?

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2023/07/25

David Brooks first proposed a distinction between Résumé Virtues and Eulogy Virtues. Résumé Virtues are the things you put on your resume. Eulogy Virtues are the things people talk about at your funeral.What I've resolved: We can build both, but only by focusing on the correct directionality. A purposeful focus on Eulogy Virtues will build Résumé Virtues, but a focus on Résumé Virtues will not build Eulogy Virtues.If there's one thing I learned last week, it's that life is so very fragile

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