In Part 1 of the Going Nomad series, I explained why my partner Lauren and I are moving to Mexico at the end of the year. In Part 2, I’ll te
I recently interviewed Weihaur Lau of Created Living, a health and wellness-based coaching program for leaders. Weihaur’s coaching business
One of the most exciting trends in coming years will be the formation of cooperative working groups made up of independent contractors. Whe
In Part 1, I argued that curating the content of others was an excellent way to start creating content of one’s own, whether your goal is ad
A Nine-Part Series, from Concept to Launch
In Part 13, we looked at the benefits of Component Thinking, which involves thinking of any product we are working on as made up of subcompo
In P.A.R.A Part I, I argued that the Project List was the lynchpin of modern productivity, serving as a dashboard of your current commitment
I’ve decided to post my list of life goals here, after years of being cagey and secretive about them. My fear has been that people will some
My partner Lauren and I are moving to Mexico City later this year. This post explains why, both to clarify for myself, and to be able to sha
In Part 7, I argued for the importance of interacting with information, instead of just passively consuming it. Interaction results in bette
Over the past year, I’ve seen P.A.R.A. implementations of all shapes and sizes. I’ve seen them from every corner of the globe, in languages
Technology has transformed every aspect of business, from the tools we use to communicate and collaborate, to how products and services are
In the beginning, is a message. You have something to say. A message that wants to get out of you. That needs to get out of you or else it w
This is a presentation and Q&A with Julia Beauchamp, a public speaking coach I recently worked with for an important speaking gig. Her
In The Four Pathways of Modern Book Publishing, I described the main routes for a writer to get published today, and in The Case for Traditi
This is a recording of a live walkthrough of Superhuman, an email client that works in the browser and on iOS and connects to any Gmail acc
Now it’s time to look at the JIT Project Manager’s toolkit. How do we put these ideas into practice in our day to day work? Through Workflow
In Part 11, I introduced the concept of a “critical path” of tasks in a project, and the rationale for pushing tasks as late as possible on
In Part 8, we looked at divergence and convergence as the two fundamental modes of all creative work. Now let’s see what this looks like in
The following are the results of my Mid-Year Review, which I do every year around the beginning of July. It is a simple process of reflectio
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