Chad Aaron Hall

In times like these, the craving for certainty and the human instinct to avoid hard work are incredibly challenging to work through. Getting more information sounds smarter. Brainstorming sounds smarter. A whiteboard discussion sounds smarter. But the real work is focused on making the demo in order to give people a specific, concrete, example of... See more

Great artists work. Mediocre artists talk a lot about tools.

Other research suggests that income doesn’t have a lasting increase on happiness because people usually adapt to money. In contrast, marriage, family, and health have lasting increases on happiness and are immune to hedonic adaptation

If you can’t talk yourself into using your energy to write or type something out, it’s probably not worth capturing.

There are no better examples than Harvard University and the New York Times , whose choices so often set the tone for other elite universities and publications. Both institutions may have declined in their overall control over American life, but they have remained culturally influential and economically viable by pandering to the tastes of a small... See more