Mikey Hayes
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Mikey Hayes
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Allocating Capacity
Regardless of how we feel, capacity is not something to be solved or optimized, it’s a resource to be measured and allocated.
What's more, unless we have a lot of fidelity to significantly change our lives, our capacity will likely stay the same. Therefore, our ability to increase our sum is more or less a moot point.
Growing our
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Open Notes [No. 08] - May 15, 2025
Too often, we think of notebooks as a way-station: a necessary stop en-route to the perfected, polished work of art. But what if the notebook is the work of art? What if the process of taking notes is the point?
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Feeds, Feelings, and Focus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Examining the Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Video Use
psycnet.apa.orgDesigning is Thinking
A few years back I was hard at work organizing the semester-long schedule for a non-profit program. After roughly laying everything out, I realized there were so many events that simply placing them all on a physical calendar would be overwhelming.
While any calendar app would have been helpful in presenting the schedule, at
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Almost every time I meet somebody who I'd consider to be a genius, I discover that they have some debilitating inhibition like severe insomnia, addiction, mania, or paranoia. Nature trades in fine balances. Rare is the one who gets the gift but not the curse.
David Perellx.com
Middle Ground Compendium [No. 181] “Pocket Pad”
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