Luck, Skill, and Effort
I’ve found conversations with friends to be great places to develop and test ideas. As Lance and I were talking recently, several topics that have been on my mind over the past few weeks came together and over the course of the call we developed our first take on the relationship between luck, skill, and…
40 Next Year
“Are you actually excited about turning 40 or are trying to convince yourself you’re excited?” It was a fair question. As was my tradition, the first of the year gave me the opportunity to accurately say that I’d be however many years older next year, which usually caught folks by surprise. 40 felt special this…
Positive Peer Pressure
I do enjoy writing. Well, I enjoy the output of writing. It’s been about 6 months, though, since I last wrote. It’s a new year and my experiment with JonathanOS continues. I’ve thought about moving an update on progress from my head to the keyboard and just didn’t feel motivated enough for one reason or…
Five weeks in
I started work on upgrading my personal operating system with a fairly straightforward motivation. For years, I’ve been experimenting with tiny habits that require 5 minutes or less to complete and I’ve found that they work well for me. There are worthwhile efforts, though, that simply require more than 5 minutes per day and where…
Progress
I’m 5 days in to running the upgrade to my personal operating system. A couple of highlights so far. Day Planning Historically, I haven’t been one to plan out my day except around what’s already on the calendar. With now roughly 2 hours of additional items that I want to get done within a given…
