Learn: Unpacking “premium mediocre", premium shutdown routine, premium sentencesRead: 3 minsGreetings from Austin,Here are three premium goodies to get into the holiday spirit (and of course learn a little something even on vacation)!🤔 Premium Medioc...

Learn: Making impressions, discipline is fake, adding restrictionsRead: 3 minsGreetings from Austin,I've noticed the less time I spend on my phone, the better I feel. So I want less consuming (aka phone time) and more making. Here are three nuggets t...

Learn: Month 6 without alcohol, connections into 2024, being yourselfRead: 3 minsGreetings from Austin,Here are 3 ideas to connect deeper with yourself and others. 🇲🇽 Company Event in Mexico Last night I got back from a week in Mexico (AppSumo r...

Learn: Fun vs. work, rising environments, Munger wisdomRead: 3 minsGreetings from Mexico,Here are your 3 goodies of the week. 🤔 Fun vs Work I love this prompt: “What feels like fun to you, but to others looks like work?”Mine involves c...

Learn: Purchase behavior, pay yourself, founding Pennsylvania Read: 3 minsGreetings from Austin,Happy Black Friday Thanksgiving. Hope your stomachs are full and your carts are empty. Here are 3 desserts to sweeten your week. 🧠 Purchase vs P...

The traditional investment thesis is used by the world’s smartest investors. It outlines the assumptions supporting an investment opportunity. But in our lives, we make investments constantly. Yet most of which are made without a supporting thesis. W...

64% of people quit their new year’s goals in January. That’s less than 8% into the year. So how do we keep the excitement of new goals without falling off? First, we must understand the five stages of the “Emotional Cycle of Change.” 1. Uninformed Op...

Our best days are NOT by chance. Equally true with our worst days. There’s a pattern. Our current self either borrows from or builds to our future self. Writing → builds future clarity Caffeine → borrows future energy Booze → borrows future happiness...

Here’s the little-known origin of the vegetable seed oil industry in case you’re out of the loop. What once was “toxic waste” now is a staple of our diets. Aka, you probably still eat this. Wait, but vegetables are healthy so the same goes with their...

Conventional wisdom says, “Follow your passion.”  But it’s flawed.  We want to believe the “Passion Hypothesis” (find your passion, then find a job to match it) because it sounds blissful.  Do what you love. Chase your dreams. Yolo! But, Cal Newport...

I started doing “Family Math” the other week to calculate what age my parents will be when I’m 35, 40, 50, etc. It’s a simple exercise and the impact was surprisingly visceral (strongly suggest it). But then this morning I got a call from my best fri...

When starting something new, we first know nothing. Complete beginner. Noob.  Starting our careers we have to research everything. This is great to get going, but it leads to a bad habit. We soon find we can’t research everything. We need to move qui...

I started working with Noah Kagan two years ago. Like the desk right next to him.  My first thought was, “wow this dude moves fast.” Maybe even too fast.  He was employee #30 at Facebook, #4 at Mint, and started 20+ companies since (including AppSumo...

More than anything else in the world, we all care most about ONE thing.  Ourself.  Whether it’s the sound of our name or the stories that involve us. We love it all.   And it’s not selfish. It’s practical.  But as much as we enjoy hearing about ourse...

I used to be a serial over-analyzer.  I had a knack for turning a tiny choice into an exhausting decision. In the highway of life, I was getting stuck at every toll.  But that soon changed when I discovered an alternative route. One filled with the s...