A Brave new browser As I’m slowly shedding the Google services in my life, I recently made a fairly big move and switched from Google Chrome to the Brave browser. If you’re wanting something more privacy-focused, Brave is likely the best way to go because it’s very similar to Chrome. There are other great browsers, including Arc and Firefox (and many more), but they all have their own special features. That’s not a bad thing, but if you’ve used Chrome for many years Brave will feel awfully cl...

A Brave new browser As I’m slowly shedding the Google services in my life, I recently made a fairly big move and switched from Google Chrome to the Brave browser. If you’re wanting something more privacy-focused, Brave is likely the best way to go because it’s very similar to Chrome. There are other great browsers, including Arc and Firefox (and many more), but they all have their own special features. That’s not a bad thing, but if you’ve used Chrome for many years Brave will feel awfully cl...

Goals or not? I recently read Jim Rohn’s classic book “7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness“. As I’ve done with a few books lately, I had a brief discussion about it with GPT-4o to see if there were insights that I missed. I asked for the main takeaway from the book and got this response:One of the biggest takeaways from Jim Rohn’s “The Seven Strategies for Wealth and Happiness” is the importance of setting clear, achievable goals. Rohn emphasizes that having a vision and plan for your life ...

Goals or not? I recently read Jim Rohn’s classic book “7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness“. As I’ve done with a few books lately, I had a brief discussion about it with GPT-4o to see if there were insights that I missed. I asked for the main takeaway from the book and got this response:One of the biggest takeaways from Jim Rohn’s “The Seven Strategies for Wealth and Happiness” is the importance of setting clear, achievable goals. Rohn emphasizes that having a vision and plan for your life ...

Where Google’s downfall began While Google is clearly still a huge and impactful company, it appears things are heading in the wrong direction. If that’s true, it’s easy to point to where the slide began. Back in 2018 Jeff Bezos told his employees that one day Amazon will fail. He’s not wrong, but his intent was inspiration to keep them on the right track. Going a bit deeper, here is the exact part of that talk that stood out to me:“If we start to focus on ourselves, instead of focusing on ou...

Where Google’s downfall began While Google is clearly still a huge and impactful company, it appears things are heading in the wrong direction. If that’s true, it’s easy to point to where the slide began. Back in 2018 Jeff Bezos told his employees that one day Amazon will fail. He’s not wrong, but his intent was inspiration to keep them on the right track. Going a bit deeper, here is the exact part of that talk that stood out to me:“If we start to focus on ourselves, instead of focusing on ou...

Ideas that challenge I love being challenged by new ideas. I’ll certainly defend my point of view on any given subject, but I try to remain open to other possibilities. As Daniel Kahneman has said, it can be a great to be proven wrong because then you are “less wrong that you were before“. On a recent episode of the 2Bobs podcast, Blair Enns got into this idea a bit as well when talking about finding information that is outside of our filter bubble. He said:“I think because many of us, maybe ...

Ideas that challenge I love being challenged by new ideas. I’ll certainly defend my point of view on any given subject, but I try to remain open to other possibilities. As Daniel Kahneman has said, it can be a great to be proven wrong because then you are “less wrong that you were before“. On a recent episode of the 2Bobs podcast, Blair Enns got into this idea a bit as well when talking about finding information that is outside of our filter bubble. He said:“I think because many of us, maybe ...

Do your years of experience matter? Years of experience can be beneficial, but it often depends on what was in those years. As I shared last year, experience isn’t the same as practice. For example, most people have decades of experience typing on a computer, but only those that specifically practice at improving will get any better at it. In his book “7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness“, author Jim Rohn shares this same point by saying:“The “guy” says, “I’ve got ten years’ experience. I d...

Do your years of experience matter? Years of experience can be beneficial, but it often depends on what was in those years. As I shared last year, experience isn’t the same as practice. For example, most people have decades of experience typing on a computer, but only those that specifically practice at improving will get any better at it. In his book “7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness“, author Jim Rohn shares this same point by saying:“The “guy” says, “I’ve got ten years’ experience. I d...

Creativity isn’t about writing or drawing I consider myself to be rather creative when it comes to solving problems, but not at all creative when it comes to art. So does that make me “creative” or not? In a fantastic podcast episode of The Futur, Blair Enns referenced Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi with a simple quote that aims to add some clarity to the thought. He said:“Creativity is not the ability to write or draw, that’s Personal Creativity. It’s the ability to bring perspective to problems th...

Creativity isn’t about writing or drawing I consider myself to be rather creative when it comes to solving problems, but not at all creative when it comes to art. So does that make me “creative” or not? In a fantastic podcast episode of The Futur, Blair Enns referenced Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi with a simple quote that aims to add some clarity to the thought. He said:“Creativity is not the ability to write or draw, that’s Personal Creativity. It’s the ability to bring perspective to problems th...

Grateful in the macro and the micro When you ask someone what they’re grateful for, you often get the same kinds of things – health, family, friends, etc. Those are all wonderful things, and we should all be grateful for them, but being grateful for smaller things can sometimes have a bigger impact. In a recent episode of “My First Million”, the hosts (Sam Parr and Shaan Puri) interviewed Gary Vaynerchuk and it was a fascinating conversation. I encourage you to listen/watch the entire thing w...

Grateful in the macro and the micro When you ask someone what they’re grateful for, you often get the same kinds of things – health, family, friends, etc. Those are all wonderful things, and we should all be grateful for them, but being grateful for smaller things can sometimes have a bigger impact. In a recent episode of “My First Million”, the hosts (Sam Parr and Shaan Puri) interviewed Gary Vaynerchuk and it was a fascinating conversation. I encourage you to listen/watch the entire thing w...

The step between and event and a reaction In Daniel Kahneman’s famous book “Thinking, Fast and Slow“, he describes the two types of thinking that we can do:System 1 (fast) – The impulsive, automatic, intuitiveSystem 2 (slow) – The thoughtful, deliberate, calculatingWhile being slow isn’t always good, us humans tend to go with the “fast” response far too often. In Ward Farnsworth’s “The Practicing Stoic“, he has a similar comparison by explaining how the “slow” system adds a step in our thinki...

The step between and event and a reaction In Daniel Kahneman’s famous book “Thinking, Fast and Slow“, he describes the two types of thinking that we can do:System 1 (fast) – The impulsive, automatic, intuitiveSystem 2 (slow) – The thoughtful, deliberate, calculatingWhile being slow isn’t always good, us humans tend to go with the “fast” response far too often. In Ward Farnsworth’s “The Practicing Stoic“, he has a similar comparison by explaining how the “slow” system adds a step in our thinki...

Consolidating my messages with Beeper I’d heard about the Beeper app a while ago, but didn’t actually check it out until recently. I should have looked earlier, as it’s fantastic. Very simply, it’s an app that puts almost all of your messaging apps in one place, in one stream of content. This includes WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, LinkedIn, Signal, Instagram, Google Messages, and many others. I intentionally said “almost all of your messaging apps” because it can’t handle Apple’s iMe...

Consolidating my messages with Beeper I’d heard about the Beeper app a while ago, but didn’t actually check it out until recently. I should have looked earlier, as it’s fantastic. Very simply, it’s an app that puts almost all of your messaging apps in one place, in one stream of content. This includes WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, LinkedIn, Signal, Instagram, Google Messages, and many others. I intentionally said “almost all of your messaging apps” because it can’t handle Apple’s iMe...

The Sunday Summary: Creativity, goals, spam, and challenging ideas In an effort to help me keep up with everything I post each week, here is my latest “Sunday Summary” of my posts from the week. Mon, May 27: Make Mistakes Once It’s often worth making a mistake, but you also need to make sure that you learn from it. Tue, May 28: Creativity isn’t about writing or drawing There is a difference between “creativity” and “personal creativity”, and some of us only get one of them. Wed, May 29: Goals...

The Sunday Summary: Creativity, goals, spam, and challenging ideas In an effort to help me keep up with everything I post each week, here is my latest “Sunday Summary” of my posts from the week. Mon, May 27: Make Mistakes Once It’s often worth making a mistake, but you also need to make sure that you learn from it. Tue, May 28: Creativity isn’t about writing or drawing There is a difference between “creativity” and “personal creativity”, and some of us only get one of them. Wed, May 29: Goals...

Build a brand outside of Google There was recently a huge leak from Google that detailed much of how their search algorithm works, and it was quite eye opening. One of the best overviews of the leak comes from Rand Fishkin, and you can read it here. In digging in, he had a few very insightful thoughts that I wanted to share here.Big brands matterHe had a few thoughts about building a big brand in order to rank well in Google. Here is one:“If there was one universal piece of advice I had for m...

Build a brand outside of Google There was recently a huge leak from Google that detailed much of how their search algorithm works, and it was quite eye opening. One of the best overviews of the leak comes from Rand Fishkin, and you can read it here. In digging in, he had a few very insightful thoughts that I wanted to share here.Big brands matterHe had a few thoughts about building a big brand in order to rank well in Google. Here is one:“If there was one universal piece of advice I had for m...

Bugging 24,990 people to make 10 sales I’ve shared my disdain for cold email many times on here, and a recent video that I watched help to prove my point. Similar to how I follow both sides of political contests online, I also keep an eye on cold emailers spammers to see what their latest techniques are. I was watching a video a few days ago where the creator was sharing some “great tips to create hundreds of fake email accounts to send out cold email“, and he included a spreadsheet on how ma...

Bugging 24,990 people to make 10 sales I’ve shared my disdain for cold email many times on here, and a recent video that I watched help to prove my point. Similar to how I follow both sides of political contests online, I also keep an eye on cold emailers spammers to see what their latest techniques are. I was watching a video a few days ago where the creator was sharing some “great tips to create hundreds of fake email accounts to send out cold email“, and he included a spreadsheet on how ma...