Chad Aaron Hall

I don't think there's anything wrong with treating productivity literature as leisure reading.

When I first met the Brunch Bunch, in June of 2007, one of the women showed me a roster of all of the families who had moved out of town. She said those people could no longer afford to stay, because wealthy urbanites’ holiday homes had driven up property taxes.

“You know...fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now the real world is an escape from the internet.”

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