I used to be a parrot, echoing other people's ideas, opinions, and beliefs, because I wasn’t sure of my own. I thought that by ‘borrowing’ and mimicking, I’d be more likeable, it’d be easier to seem cool, clever, or to belong. Looking back now, it gives me the ick—the amount of shit I nodded along to, gross. I think I was scared of looking stupid, ... See more

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?

- charles bukowski

But here's the thing: being able to say, "wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement . Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have owners... See more

Our inbox teaches us to fractionalise our attention.

• Our phone teaches us to fractionalise our attention.

• Social media teaches us to fractionalise our attention.

Unless we learn to focus for long periods of time on the problems we are trying to solve, we will live a life without ever doing our best work.

Confessions of a bottleneck. And my plan to change that.

Note to team from today.

My job is to help you do the best work you’ve ever done.

Not the most work you’ve ever done.

My job is not to make you tired or stressed;

My job is to keep you out of meetings;

My job is to keep you away from your inbox.

To do the best work you have ever done, you must wor... See more

This is the ultimate trapdoor in the hall of fame; to become a prisoner of one's own persona. The desire for recognition in an increasingly atomized world lures us to be who strangers wish us to be. And with personal development so arduous and lonely, there is ease and comfort in crowdsourcing your identity. But amid such temptations, it's worth re... See more

Until your social media team can start creating content for your audience instead of your brand’s senior leadership, you won’t see organic results on any platform.

It really is that simple.

If Kim Kardashian entered your industry with a terrible offer, she'd still make a billion dollars. Your problem is not your offer. The problem is you don't promote yourself well enough.