This post tells the story of how the Vanderbilt family went from a consolidated $5B fortune in 1886 to not a millionaire among them in 1973. It’s advice on what not to do. | learn more
Highrise CEO Nathan Kontny gets to the heart of an important issue: peaking in your career. He uses the value of paintings to show Picasso peaked early in life, while Cézanne kept improving over time. Don’t be “done” already! | learn more
It’s healthy to sit and think about this concept for a bit: “Most people sleep about seven or eight hours a night. That leaves 16 or 17 hours awake each day. Or about 1,000 minutes. Let’s think about those 1,000 minutes […]
This is a great article that explains something that I learned first-hand a few years back. I found myself transferring to-do items to my calendar regularly to plan my time. Eventually, I skipped the to-do list altogether. The calendar has […]
This is a provocative look at goals and their potential dark side. Goals that haven’t been achieved yet may end up becoming “failures” if viewed with the wrong frame of reference. The author has turned to habits for right-now in […]
The subject matter of this Stratechery post deals with crypto at the end, but that’s not why I’m sharing it. More interesting to most readers will be the point about the tulip bubble and what we all (likely incorrectly) believe […]
“If we cut ourselves off from the full scope of history because it makes us uncomfortable, or doesn’t fit with the cultural narrative in which we live, we reduce our ability to learn from the past and apply those lessons […]
Shane Parrish of Farnam Street Blog expands on Paul Graham’s schedule manifesto with examples including Haruki Murakami and Gary Vaynerchuk. Control your time to get the most out of it! | learn more
Another Paul Graham classic post. If you haven’t read it, you should. If you have, a re-read is worthwhile. Life really is short, so cut the bullshit out of your life. | learn more
“When it comes to falling asleep and waking up, Breus has found there are four types of people in the world–or rather, animals: bears, lions, wolves, and dolphins. Each represents a so-called ‘chronotype’ that describes your body’s natural sleep habits […]