dill's blogMy first chess tournament Last summer over quarantine, one of my best friends and I started playing chess together online. It was just something competitive we could do while trapped in our homes. I knew how to play from years prior, but h...

dill's blogIcebreaker deck This is not a paid promotion. As a gift for yourself or someone else, I highly recommend BestSelf’s Icebreaker—Deeper Talk deck. This deck of cards is loaded with powerful questions which spark phenomenal conversations. Whe...

dill's blogFriend systems I had my biweekly phone call with one of my best friends yesterday. She lives in Rwanda. Last week I realized we had been keeping the chain going for a year and a half. And we have no plan on stopping. What an easy system fo...

dill's blogAnother trip to Brooklyn (pt. 3) Yesterday, I gave a synopsis of my weekend in NYC. Give that a read before reading this blog. Here are my takeaways: 1) Getting sexually harrassed is surprisingly not fun. It’s kind of a funny story, and I’...

dill's blogAnother trip to Brooklyn (pt. 2) I spent the weekend in Brooklyn with my good buddy. It was a much chiller few days than when I first visited back in September…So I’ll briefly go through what we did and tomorrow I’ll finish with my takeawa...

dill's blogSober hangover I got back from my NYC weekend late last night. My first session today is at 7am—in 30 minutes. I feel truly hungover from lack of sleep. So much to tell the readers. But not today. Tomorrow… Sober hangover

dill's blogWork music I love working to lo-fi, classical music, and videogame scores. If you enjoy the same while doing deep work—writing, designing, editing—here’s a playlist I made for such occasions. Work music

dill's blogIt takes a lifetime I used to shame myself for not sticking to a habit. I saw it as “slipping up” or “breaking.” Then I had James Clear clear (get it?) this up for me: People say a bunch of different things about the timeline of habits. Th...

dill's blogAnother trip to Brooklyn I’m moving to NYC in October 2022. That decision came from a fairly nutty weekend spent there in September. I visited my coaching buddy and met him for the first time in real life. We got very little sleep in those...

dill's blogFirst time at chess club Last night. I found out there’s a chess club in my city. They meet every Tuesday night in the Whole Foods cafe. I showed up with my chess set and clock to a bunch of old men sitting and playing casual games. For so...