Short Thoughts
- Action before Identity
- Why is it never enough?
- Habits & Goals
- On Action.
- Writing in the Age of AI
- The Choice to Have a Good Day
- If You Don’t Remember What You Read, Is It Pointless To Read?
- One More Hour per Day.
- Today Is All We Have.
- On The Importance of Documentation.
- “No” is a Complete Sentence.
- Wisdom is Following Your Own Advice.
- Trusting in the Long Term.
- JFDI vs DFTU
- Daily Message to Oneself
- On Being Prolific.
- On Fake Startup Validation.
- Ambition vs Tranquility.
- All Work Takes 25 Minutes.
- Moving Towards What You Fear.
- Considerations on Redistributions of Wealth
- On Continuous Process Improvement.
- Will Solving Crime Become a Production Issue?
- Management of WIP.
- Absolute Accountability.
- Planning Life Without a Plan.
- Commander’s Intent.
- Initial Thoughts on Human Rights.
- The Irony of Tragedy
- Boredom as a Strategy.
- On Project Timelines.
- 1 is more than 0.
- Further Thoughts on Infinite Workloads.
- The Philosophy of Train Travel.
- LLMtext2excel.
- Increasing LLM Speed.
- Extracting Structured Data from Documents.
- Word Salads.
- Dictation vs Typing.
- TNSTAAFL.
- Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.
- jSON Education Prompt for AI
- We Reach the Same End by Discrepant Means.
- Doing What We Should Do.
- Thoughts on Retirement
- Finding Quiet.
- There’s Always Too Much To Do.
- Why Nothing Works.
- Right Now Is Good.
- Red Moon.
- A Philosophical Python (Chatbot)
- A Simple Python ChatBot.
- The Soul in the Concrete Jungle.
- Advice on Leaving Home.
- The Case for Government.
- Should All War Be Illegal?
- What is the Most Fundamental Skill?
- Feedback Loops in Strategy.
- The Future of Movies.
- On Professional Juries.
- City Development vs Beauty.
- Text Based Formats.
- How to Evaluate Product Ideas for the Public Sector.
- The Game of Life.
- A Conversation with Lord Wotton.
- Defining Strategy.
- Thoughts on Strategy.
- Strategy vs Planning.
- On Marginal Improvements.
- Considering a 20s User Guide.
- Problems with Indicators.
- Should There Be a Limit on Interest Rates?
- Walking and Thinking.
- Initial Overview of Socratic Dialogue.
- On Anxiety in My 20s.
- Strategy vs Plan.
- Observing Ourselves.
- The Information Ladder.
- Initial Thoughts on Defining Intelligence
- Notes on Public Sector IT Failures.
- Habits v0.03
- Journaling is a Discussion with the Self.
- Habits v0.02
- Habits v0.01
- Reflections on a Year of Writing.
- Patience Revisited.
- The Pyramid of Learning.
- Habits & Streaks.
- AI & Jobs.
- Resistance Revisited.
- Reflections on Writing a Book.
- Thinking About Listening.
- Short Thought on Nuclear Weapons.
- On Voluntary Manslaughter (Part 2).
- Writing in Plain English.
- On Dictation.
- On Yearly Planning.
- Handling Criticism, Revisited.
- Brevity — Winston Churchill.
- Notes on “Writing Well” by William Zinsser.
- When Solitude is Useful.
- On Witnessing a Double Homicide.
- On Voluntary Manslaughter (Part 1).
- On the Cultivation of Purpose.
- On Homicide (Part 2).
- Hard Work and Leverage.
- The Meaning of Meaning.
- Effort and Tourism.
- OpenAI Whisper.
- The Paradox of Law.
- 186 Billion Bits.
- The Future of War.
- Initial Thoughts on Custom Software Procurement.
- On Large Meetings.
- Further Thoughts: Cost-Per-Transaction Model.
- Kaizen and Compounding.
- A Decentralized System for Individual Trust.
- Should Wigs be Banned in Court?
- The Next Process is the Customer.
- Three Components for GTM Strategy.
- An Additional Benefit of Meditation.
- Minimalism Should Be Scary.
- A Framework for Building Products.
- Consulting and Long-Term Decision-Making.
- Thoughts on Strategy.
- Learning via Reflection.
- Initial Thoughts on Life Planning.
- Clarity in Writing.
- Thought Experiment: Replication Machines v1.
- Initial Thoughts on Spaced Repetition.
- A Cut Finger.
- Manny’s Matrix: A Simple Product Prioritization Matrix.
- On City Life.
- The Psychology of Selling SaaS.
- Why Do We Punish Criminals?
- Further Thoughts on Simplicity.
- Initial Thoughts on Principles of Process Design.
- AR+MR-D = L
- The Futility of Goals.
- Another Perspective on Materialism.
- IT vs Digital.
- Travel is Good for the Soul.
- What is the True Cost of Red Tape?
- The Learning Spiral.
- Everything is Interesting.
- Experiencies vs Narratives.
- Eisenhower Matrixes.
- Consistent Actions.
- Dealing with Frustrations.
- Sophisticated Simplicity.
- 7-S Framework Checklist Questions.
- What Can We Do With 1% Of Our Day?
- A Great Question to Ask Yourself.
- On Leadership & Risk.
- The Mckinsey 7-S Framework.
- Avoid Perfection.
- Supply & Demand 101.
- SMART Goals.
- Further Thoughts on Fight Club.
- Exponential Thinking.
- SaaS Quick Ratio Explained.
- The Tannenbaum & Schmidt Continuum.
- Further Thoughts on Resistance.
- Decisions vs Outcomes.
- Thoughts on Development of the Self.
- Why I Take Photos.
- Stable Habits.
- Crossing the Rubicon.
- An Overview of The Five Levels of Leadership.
- The Sweet and The Bitter.
- Done is Better than Perfect.
- Moving Towards or Away.
- Initial Thoughts on Airline Economics.
- More Thoughts on Flow State.
- 100 Small Changes.
- How to Sabotage Your Organization.
- Pyramid Expectations.
- Traffic Lights vs Roundabouts.
- Borrow Decisions From your Future Self.
- Understanding Insulin v1.
- How to Use YouTube.
- Evidence of Being Wrong.
- Recommended Notification Settings.
- Searching for Opposing Views.
- Appreciating Nature.
- Todo Lists vs Scheduling.
- Ubiquitous Capture Devices.
- The Problem with Too Many Options.
- The Law of Triviality.
- Initial Thoughts on Bell Curves.
- Just Write.
- Initial Thoughts on Flow State.
- At What Cost — Again.
- Building A Wall.
- Keep It Simple.
- Experiencing a Dollar Bill.
- Does Quantity Give Significance?
- On Holidays, Revisted.
- Doing The Unscalable.
- Centralized vs Decentralized Systems v2.
- On Deep Work.
- Everyday Opportunities.
- On Doing Nothing.
- Negotiation in Life.
- A Definition of a “Philosophy of Life”.
- How Long Does It Take?
- The Complexity of Simplicity.
- Casco Viejo — Panama.
- Goodhart’s Law.
- f/8 And Be There.
- The Paradox of Being a Millennial.
- The Bus to Abilene.
- The Tortoise and The Hare.
- Thinking Clearly.
- Motivation.
- Self-Doubt.
- Collar Colour.
- Government Financial Transparency.
- Finding Yourself in Difficult Times.
- Stop and Think.
- Problems Into Solutions.
- What’s The Worst That Can Happen?
- On Being Hungry.
- Perfect Roast Potatoes.
- On Perspective.
- On The Value of Things.
- The Sustainable Development Goals.
- Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
- What is a Platform?
- What is an Intellectual?
- The Two Types of Work.
- The Power Of Waiting.
- Airports Are Stoic Tests.
- Consistency.
- The Map vs The Path.
- Parkinson’s Law.
- Being Cityless.
- The Real Cost of Cheap Shit.
- At What Cost?
- Recommended Daily Habits.
- Business Risks.
- Everyday Stoicism.
- Two Handles.
- Why Wake Up Early?
- Synchronous vs Asynchronous.
- Monotask: Do One Thing At A Time.
- On Independence & Quality.
- The First Thing to Control.
- Placing a Focus On Direction.
- A New Paradigm for Productivity.
- A Straight-Forward Book Structure.
- The Difference In Details.
- The Future’s Opinion of Today.
- Stress Revisited.
- On YouTube.
- Boredom.
- Investing In Books.
- Business vs Morals.
- Patience.
- Collecting Ideas.
- Attention & Advertising Trends.
- A Question Worth Asking.
- Great Customer Service – Mistakes.
- On Starting Again.
- On Double Ignorance.
- Rules For a Better Life.
- The Ultimate Guide to Minimalism.
- Should You Believe a Sales Pitch?
- Strategy vs Execution.
- The Philosophy of Sales.
- Doing Less.
- Be a Lumberjack.
- Abstracts of 34 Via Montesanto.
- A Few Haikus.
- Drinking Coffee is Lying to Yourself.
- Cicero’s Six Mistakes of Man.
- Our Relationship with Technology.
- Three Breathing Tricks.
- Handling Criticism.
- Book Recommendations.
- Hello World.