A Truly Productive Life Shouldn’t Feel Like Work
Don't waste energy figuring out how to live a productive life. Ask yourself how to tune into your innate values, passions, and talents.
Why I’m Glad That I’ve Been Unsuccessful
Being unsuccessful has helped me discover and appreciate the value of the more important things in life.
Why I Changed My Life’s Guiding Principle
I ignored my old guiding principle, trusted my instincts instead, and now have a new and improved heuristic for directing my life's decisions.
$526,000 a Year for the Intangibles That Make You Happy?
If we add up all the studies that put a price tag on the intangible sources of happiness, it's a lot—but is it enough?
How I Compared How Others See Me to How I See Myself
The simple "mirror straightening" exercise that helped me better understand how others see me versus how I see myself.
Time to Give Yourself a Reality Check? Consider This
Every year I give myself a reality check that straightens the deluded stories I tend to tell myself. Here's how.
Innate by Kevin Mitchell: Implications on My Clone Army
Summarizing Kevin Mitchell's book, Innate, and applying what he teaches to questions about what my clone army would look like.
Be Smarter About Finding Your Career Fit
You'll spend 80,000 hours working, so not systematically seeking a career fit for your unique profile is a devastating mistake.
Life Whacks: The Ways We Make Life Unnecessarily Difficult
Life whacks are the opposite of life hacks: they make life harder than it needs to be. What are yours? And can you eliminate them?
Get Rid of Your Greatest Strength’s Weakness
Your greatest strengths are also sources of weakness, but who says you can't dull the harmful sides of these double-edged swords?
What is True Success And Why Isn’t It Sexier?
While 97% of us agree about what "true success" means, we lust after other things at its expense. Maybe it's a measurement problem.
The 2023 “Unrutty” Awards for Best and Worst of My Year
It's time to hand out awards for the best and worst of the past calendar year from all different areas of my life.