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- 3 days ago8 min
Jevons Paradox: The Perils of Efficiency
In 1865, English economist William Stanley Jevons studied the impact of the increased efficiency of coal use.The common economic intuition said that as efficiency improved, people would use less coal. Jevons argued that the economic reality was different: As technology improved the efficiency of coal use, demand for coal would increase as people created and justified new uses.It became known as Jevons Paradox: technological improvements that increase the efficiency of a given resource lead to a rise in the consumption of that resource.I think the most interesting application of Jevons Paradox is in your life. When you optimize for efficiency, you may find yourself doing more, not less, of the thing you tried to become more efficient at.In this piece, I share a simple reminder:Efficiency is great. But only when it gets you more of what you actually want...•••This episode brought to you by:DeleteMe - DeleteMe makes it quick, easy, and safe to remove your personal data online. Origin Financial - Your personal AI Financial Advisor. Track your spending, investments, and net worth—all in one place.Innerbody Labs - A Higher Standard. After reviewing thousands of health products, we built formulas we wished existed.Lemon - The Al agent that turns your voice instructions into finished tasks.
- 5 days ago11 min
I Think I Need to Talk About Failure
Last Sunday, I was scheduled to run a marathon with a goal of completing the race in 2:49:59.I trained all summer for the race, building up to 70+ mile weeks. I tapered. I carb loaded. I meticulously prepared for every detail.And honestly, I was certain I’d do it.But…I failed.After 21.45 miles at a 6:24 average pace, I stopped and walked off the course. I didn’t finish. DNF.That’s not something you read in newsletters or see on social media every day. It’s all about wins. Successes. Achievements.On Monday, I wrote about why failure is a good thing. It means you had the courage to go all-in. To try. To do something. To step into the arena.You may not always get it done. But you’ll win at life along the way...•••This episode brought to you by:DeleteMe - DeleteMe makes it quick, easy, and safe to remove your personal data online. Origin Financial - Your personal AI Financial Advisor. Track your spending, investments, and net worth—all in one place.Innerbody Labs - A Higher Standard. After reviewing thousands of health products, we built formulas we wished existed.Lemon - The Al agent that turns your voice instructions into finished tasks.
- 1 weeks ago9 min
Be a Ford, Then a Sloan
The engineer took out an axe and slammed it into the brick wall.It was June 1896. The young man had spent months working in a small brick shed behind his rented house, only to realize, at 4am, that the door wasn't big enough for what he'd built.His name was Henry Ford. His creation, the Ford Quadricycle.His atomic insight was simple: He began viewing the factory itself as the product.While others obsessed over the car, he obsessed over the factory. By the early 1920s, Ford owned an extraordinary 60% of the U.S. automobile market.But around 1921, the ground began to shift. And while Ford was destroying new prototypes and rejecting changes, Alfred Sloan was building General Motors with adaptation as its core principle.Sloan had a different atomic insight: He began viewing the company itself as the product. Under Sloan's management, while Ford sputtered, GM's market share doubled, from around 10% at the start of the decade to around 20% by 1925.The lesson isn't Don't be a Ford or Be a Sloan. Rather, it's Be a Ford, then a Sloan.In this piece, I explored why the skill set that gets you to your first million isn't the same as the one that gets you from one to ten. And why, above all, adaptability is the key to life...•••This episode brought to you by:DeleteMe - DeleteMe makes it quick, easy, and safe to remove your personal data online. Origin Financial - Your personal AI Financial Advisor. Track your spending, investments, and net worth—all in one place.Innerbody Labs - A Higher Standard. After reviewing thousands of health products, we built formulas we wished existed.Lemon - The Al agent that turns your voice instructions into finished tasks.
- 1 weeks ago7 min
It Was Just a Game of Catch
Last weekend, my family and I made our annual pilgrimage to a small community in northwest Connecticut.When I was 18 months old, my parents had rented a house there for the summer, seeking an escape from the New York City heat.The next year, we went back. The following, we went again.Soon, the tiny enclave became like a second home. I met my two best friends there. I caught my first fish there. I had my first crush there.But perhaps most importantly, I played my first game of catch there.As I remember it, I was probably about five years old. My dad had a softball and a couple of old baseball gloves. And there, in the tall, overgrown grass, we threw the ball back and forth.We played catch damn near every single day when I was a kid.But then, as I got older, my baseball career ended. And with it, our game of catch.Time goes unnoticed, until it's the only thing you notice.In this piece, I shared what happened last Sunday when I unlocked one of the old cabinets, pulled out two gloves, and asked my dad if he wanted to have a catch...It was just a game of catch. But it was so much more...•••This episode brought to you by:DeleteMe - DeleteMe makes it quick, easy, and safe to remove your personal data online. Origin Financial - Your personal AI Financial Advisor. Track your spending, investments, and net worth—all in one place.Innerbody Labs - A Higher Standard. After reviewing thousands of health products, we built formulas we wished existed.Lemon - The Al agent that turns your voice instructions into finished tasks.
- 2 weeks ago5 min
A Lesson From a Mentor I'll Never Forget
I first met Tim Cook in 2014.I was just starting my career in finance and had signed up for a local gym that opened at 5:00am. I started arriving at 4:45am so I could get to the office by 6:30.Each morning, there was a small handful of others who would congregate outside the doors at that time. Tim happened to be one of the people in that group.For the first six months, I talked to him almost every day and had exactly zero idea who he was.As our friendship grew and I came to consider him a mentor, I realized something deeper was going on. A few years later, he was still there. Doing the exact same thing. Every single day.He became the best example I've seen of an old Zen saying:What do you do before enlightenment? Chop wood, carry water. What do you do after enlightenment? Chop wood, carry water.In this piece, I talk about the lesson I learned from seeing it up close: The outcomes may change. The titles may change. The scale may change. But the work doesn't...•••This episode brought to you by:DeleteMe - DeleteMe makes it quick, easy, and safe to remove your personal data online. Origin Financial - Your personal AI Financial Advisor. Track your spending, investments, and net worth—all in one place.Innerbody Labs - A Higher Standard. After reviewing thousands of health products, we built formulas we wished existed.Lemon - The Al agent that turns your voice instructions into finished tasks.
- 2 weeks ago11 min
9 Harsh Truths Nobody Told You About Success
I'm convinced that the market for telling people what they want to hear is much larger than the market for telling people what they need to hear.That one fact explains a lot of what you see in the world.But my goal has always been to be real. Even if it's unpopular. Because everything I write is something I hope my son reads someday, and I owe him the truth.Today, that truth is a few things nobody told you about success.It may not be what you want to hear. But it's definitely what you need to hear...•••This episode brought to you by:DeleteMe - DeleteMe makes it quick, easy, and safe to remove your personal data online. Origin Financial - Your personal AI Financial Advisor. Track your spending, investments, and net worth—all in one place.Innerbody Labs - A Higher Standard. After reviewing thousands of health products, we built formulas we wished existed.Lemon - The Al agent that turns your voice instructions into finished tasks.
- 3 weeks ago7 min
The Focusing Illusion: A Science-Backed Life Trap
Imagine two different people on the same mid-January day.One lives in California. He walks outside in shorts and a t-shirt. The warm sun beams down on his face. He puts on his sunglasses, unlocks his car, and turns the AC on full blast.One lives in New York. He walks outside in a heavy jacket. He grimaces as the cold wind hits his uncovered face. He opens the trunk of his car, takes out a brush, and starts cleaning the snow and ice off his windshield.Which one do you assume is happier?You just picked one in your mind. And I probably would have picked the same. Right up until I lived both.Yes, the truth is, the two people are both me, just one year apart.And our assumptions about their relative happiness reveal an important cognitive trap everyone needs to understand.It's called the focusing illusion.A cognitive bias where people overemphasize the importance of a specific, visible factor when estimating the overall happiness of an individual or group.In this piece, I explored why what you can see is almost never what matters, and shared a simple question I like to call my Tuesday Test...•••This episode brought to you by:DeleteMe - DeleteMe makes it quick, easy, and safe to remove your personal data online. Origin Financial - Your personal AI Financial Advisor. Track your spending, investments, and net worth—all in one place.Innerbody Labs - A Higher Standard. After reviewing thousands of health products, we built formulas we wished existed.Lemon - The Al agent that turns your voice instructions into finished tasks.
- 3 weeks ago9 min
The Hidden Debt of Convenience
A few weeks ago, I came across a podcast clip of Conan O'Brien talking about why he doesn't pay to fly private. He likes going through the airport, chatting with people at TSA, and "being in the world with other people that are traveling."It got me thinking about the obsessive pursuit of convenience and the hidden debt it creates in your life.Money has the ability to reduce the simple stresses, burdens, and inconveniences of adult life. But there's a certain level of inconvenience that's an important part of the human experience.When you seek convenience, you get a benefit now in the form of ease, but it creates a corresponding liability in the form of reality separation.In this piece, I talk about the hidden debt of convenience, how to pay it down by embracing friction, and why friction is what makes your life feel real...•••This episode brought to you by:DeleteMe - DeleteMe makes it quick, easy, and safe to remove your personal data online. Origin Financial - Your personal AI Financial Advisor. Track your spending, investments, and net worth—all in one place.Innerbody Labs - A Higher Standard. After reviewing thousands of health products, we built formulas we wished existed.Lemon - The Al agent that turns your voice instructions into finished tasks.
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