365 Days Writing Challenge – Checkpoint Seven
Seven months of daily publishing. The discipline became identity. Missing a day now feels like [...]
Thinking Outside Of The Loyalty Card
Loyalty programs train predictable behavior. Real advantage comes from thinking outside the rewards system they [...]
Flattening The Curve
COVID taught us curve flattening. The concept applies everywhere—spread intensity over time to avoid system [...]
Learning To Rest
Rest is a skill most never learn. Active recovery differs from collapse. True rest requires [...]
Know What You’re Talking About
Confident ignorance spreads faster than careful knowledge. Before speaking with authority, verify you actually understand [...]
Monday Moving Forward – Filtering Out The Noise
Mondays amplify noise—everyone wants your attention. Filter ruthlessly before the week drowns you. Signal emerges [...]
You Can’t Sail A Toy Boat On A Pierced Bucket
Fix the leaks before optimizing the sails. Financial holes drain faster than earnings fill. Plug [...]
Do Electric Scooters Grow On The Streets?
Scooters appeared overnight in every city. The sharing economy creates abundance illusions—someone owns them, someone [...]
Frugality And Financial Resilience
Frugality builds resilience by widening the gap between income and expenses. The buffer absorbs shocks [...]
The Obstacle Is Not The Bottleneck
Obstacles block paths temporarily. Bottlenecks restrict flow permanently. Solving obstacles while ignoring bottlenecks wastes energy [...]
Thinking Outside Of The Jar
We live inside invisible jars of assumptions. Thinking outside requires recognizing the jar exists first—most [...]
Filling In The Gaps
Brains fill gaps automatically with assumptions. Incomplete information triggers pattern completion—often wrong. Awareness of gap-filling [...]
Clarkson’s Farm – A Review
Jeremy Clarkson farming revealed agriculture's brutal economics. Entertainment met reality—farming looks romantic until you run [...]
Opportunities And Building Up
Opportunities compound when you build consistently. Each completed project creates platform for the next. Building [...]
We’re Still A Tribalist World, It Just Got Easier To Pick Our Tribe
If you look at all the technological advance of the last hundreds of years, you'd [...]
Words We Don’t Use Anymore
Language evolves through deletion. Words disappear when concepts become obsolete or unspeakable. What we stop [...]
Location Independence Is Not A Luxury Anymore
Location independence shifted from luxury to survival skill. Governments lock down, economies collapse, borders close. [...]
Surviving Fake News Era In 4 Steps
Today someone I follow on Twitter asked how do we know if some news is [...]
Life Is Not A Movie, So You’re Not A Movie Star
Movies edit out boring parts. Life includes every tedious moment. Expecting cinematic drama from ordinary [...]
Algorithmic Business
Algorithms run businesses now—hiring, firing, pricing, inventory. Human judgment shrinks to exception handling. Efficiency wins, [...]
The Difference Between Owning, And Having Access To
Ownership means control. Access means permission that revokes. The distinction matters when platforms change rules [...]
These Grapes Are Very Fresh, You’re Very Lucky, Sir
Merchants create urgency through scarcity theater. Fresh grapes, lucky timing, special deals—all scripts to trigger [...]
Managing Mainstream Media In A Less Toxic Way – A Few Approaches
Mainstream media optimizes for outrage and engagement. Managing exposure requires intentional boundaries—time limits, source diversity, [...]
Side Stream Media And Down Stream Media
Mainstream dominates, but sidestream and downstream media multiply perspectives. Information hierarchies flatten—alternative narratives flow alongside [...]
Main Stream Media, Side Stream Media and Down Stream Media
Media stratifies into three streams—mainstream narratives, sidestream alternatives, downstream niche communities. Each stream serves different [...]
Speed Is A Function Of Fuel
Fast execution requires high-quality fuel—energy, focus, resources. Running on empty produces slow results regardless of [...]
Time Off Is Actually Time On
Although today started rather joyfully, and I even took a different route to work , [...]
Seeding, Accumulation And Profit Taking
Investment cycles through three phases—seeding with small bets, accumulating during growth, taking profits before collapse. [...]
How I Use addTaskManager To Churn Out Content Daily
Daily content production requires systems, not willpower. addTaskManager separates capture, decision, and execution—the GTD framework [...]
Making Money Is Not About Making Money
Making money is about creating value, solving problems, building trust. Money is the byproduct, not [...]
Six Months Of Writing Every Day – Checkpoint Six Of The 365 Days Writing Challenge
Six months of daily publishing. Halfway through the year, the challenge shifted from discipline to [...]