Mikey Hayes
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Mikey Hayes
@middleground
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To Do Today Journal
Measure What Matters
A potentially helpful strategy for learning to take note of our progress could be to find a better scale. Fortunately, better as it pertains to a scale used to measure our growth isn’t really about being able to detect smaller changes or collect more data. Better, when it comes to noticing how far we’ve come is about being
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From the author of 4,000 Weeks
Make it a Policy
Often, we prefer to avoid making mistakes and create algorithms (of sorts) composed of unique sets of values, resources, and trusted relationships to ease the decision making process.
While a multifaceted strategic assessment seems arduous, it can offer substantial benefits. The most noteworthy advantage of creating a helpful
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Open Notes shares small thoughts about the big picture and is a production from Middle Ground Made.
Open Notes [No. 11] - June 05, 2025
Watching Doesn’t Count
Content styles like vlogs, reactions, and reviews are extremely popular and it seems like we’ve become satisfied with consuming, as opposed to experiencing both the novel and mundane. In practice, we are content with trading the ability to experience a new restaurant, purchase a good, or visit a landmark for the ability to
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Open Notes [No. 10] - May 29, 2025
Maybe art is simply the result of doing, coupled with a refusal to be concerned with anything beyond the act itself.
From Open Notes, A Middle Ground Made Project