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- Today8 min
The Random Cage Effect: Why Preparation Beats Planning
This is one of my strongest held beliefs:Preparation beats planning.Planning is based on the expectation of order. Preparation is based on the expectation of chaos.And as I recently found out, there's real science to support it.In 1994, researchers gathered 30 collegiate baseball players for an experiment. One group practiced hitting pitches in a fixed order. Another received pitches in a completely randomized order.During practice, the fixed-order group looked better. But in a real game-like session, the random group performed significantly better.I call this the Random Cage Effect.In this piece, I talk about how I've applied this lesson to my own life and why preparing for chaos leads to better real-world outcomes...•••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 days ago9 min
When In Doubt, Zoom Out
A few days ago, I made a terrible mistake.I woke up, grabbed my phone, and started scrolling X while making my coffee.In the span of about two minutes, my brain got hit with doomsday predictions, geopolitical tensions, horrific news, and warnings about AI destroying jobs.Before I had even taken my first sip of coffee, I was in fight-or-flight mode.It's easy to feel that we're living in the most uncertain time in history. But the uncertainty itself is ancient. Its grip on our lives is new.You are plugged into a 24/7 uncertainty machine. An IV drip straight into your veins.The truth is you can't stop the machine. So the goal isn't to avoid or eliminate uncertainty, as much as to outlast it.In this piece, I talk about the single mantra I keep coming back to:When in doubt, zoom out.Everything in life benefits from perspective. The struggle feels smaller. The growth feels bigger.Because the days are noisy, but the months, years, and decades are not.When in doubt, zoom out.•••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
I Think You Need to Become a Beginner Again
In 2021, I left my traditional career track in finance to go all in on writing and creative work.I assumed that more time inputs would mean more, and better, outputs.I was wrong.The writing, once a highlight of my day, had taken on the feel of a job. The passion had become work.As it turns out, there's real science that helps explain why. It's called the Overjustification Effect: When an expected external incentive decreases a person's intrinsic motivation to engage in an activity they already enjoy.In this piece, I wrote about how I learned to protect the things I love from the weight of expectations and why I think you need to become a beginner again.It's a small rebellion in a world that wants you to do everything with some purpose in mind.You don't have to get good at every single thing you do. You don't need to attach metrics to every pursuit. Not everything has to become something.Some things can just be.•••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 ago12 min
Brutally Honest Advice to My 22-Year-Old Self
I'm often asked for advice from people just starting out in life.When I respond, I imagine I'm speaking to my 22-year-old self. Young. Energetic. Highly ambitious. But with little direction. Feeling lost.There are a handful of things I find myself consistently repeating in these responses, so I thought it would be worthwhile to collect them into a single piece.But to be clear, in writing (and re-reading it), it's obvious to me that this advice applies to all of us. At any age. On any life path.So, strap in and buckle up.Here's my brutally honest advice to my 22-year-old self...•••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 ago10 min
The Locksmith Paradox
In an apocryphal story, legendary painter Pablo Picasso was walking through the market when a woman approached him and asked for a drawing.Picasso quickly drew a small, but beautiful piece of art and handed it back to her."That'll be one million dollars," he smiled."But Mr. Picasso, it only took you thirty seconds!""On the contrary," he replied. "It took me thirty years to draw that masterpiece in thirty seconds."This story is a perfect example of a modern crisis I'm starting to see in the AI era.It's called the Locksmith Paradox: We have a tendency to undervalue something because of the low visible input required to create it, despite the output being exactly what we requested.In this piece, I talk about the science behind this phenomenon, why it penalizes efficiency and rewards general incompetence, and how to fight back as individuals, leaders, and organizations...•••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 ago8 min
The Overwhelm Protocol
A six week stretch of travel had already reduced my output. Then, I got caught in an earthquake in Panama. And finally, upon returning home on little sleep, I was laid out by a bug my son brought home from school.This weekend, as I started to think about the week ahead, I noticed a familiar, building sensation. A clenching tension in my jaw and neck. A heavy drop in my shoulders. An elevated heart rate.It got me thinking about how to find your way out of the land of overwhelm when the pile of work and life debt feels too heavy to even start on.The body and the mind are intimately connected. Every random object is effectively an open loop. I build momentum on the small and then leverage that momentum to knock out the big.In this piece, I talk about my five-step Overwhelm Protocol: move the body, clean your room, make a Weekly Win Card, create a snowball, and knock down a wall...•••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
30 Hours in a Massive Earthquake
Last Wednesday, I flew to Panama to deliver two keynotes. I was excited for the trip. I’d been once before as a kid and remembered the beautiful country.I completed the first talk on Thursday evening and the second on Friday morning. I left feeling energized and headed back to the hotel to take a few calls before heading to the airport.At 12:56pm local time, I was on the top floor of my hotel when I started to feel a light rumbling sensation in my chair.But then, chaos. The floor started to shake. The entire building started to sway. Things started falling off the counters and onto the floor.I would shortly find out that a 7.7 magnitude earthquake was underway. Over the next 30 hours as I tried to find my way home, there were 161 aftershocks, including several 6.0+ magnitude tremors.In this piece, I share my stream-of-consciousness perspectives from going through a massive earthquake.How everything got smaller. How I was reminded that shared struggle builds bonds. Why awareness is so very perishable.And why bad luck may not be so bad...•••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.
- 4 weeks ago6 min
The Loud Liker Theory
Confession: I’ve never been someone who was a natural in social settings.As something of an introvert, I struggled to build new adult relationships. I often felt others weren’t responding to my social signals. In most cases, I just assumed they didn’t like me and moved on.But it turns out I was actually falling victim to a damning collision of two psychological phenomena:Signal Amplification Bias: Our fear of rejection in social situations tempers our ability to convey social signals, and blinds our ability to recognize that tempering effect.The Liking Gap: We assume others like us less than they actually do.In effect, you send less than you think, and you hear less than they send.Two people who like each other leave an interaction convinced the other one doesn’t.In this piece, I share a simple solution that has completely transformed my experience with adult friendships:Like people out loud...•••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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