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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. —Ernest Hemingway

Writing is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. —E.L. Doctorow

It made me wonder: as a futurist/futures researcher, what could my morning routine be like to prepare me for the day? Thinking through my meetings and

Researchers tracked the sleep patterns of participants who worked out at three different times: 7:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., or 7:00 p.m. What they discovere

Decrease urgency by sending quick expectation-setting replies.

I found this video link on https://forum.gettingthingsdone.com/threads/david-allens-talk-at-google.10758/, but I wanted to post it here so it's ea

breakfast means to break the fast that we go into overnight.

Lifetime risk of lung cancer for: - Long-term smoker ->around 15-20% - Non-Smokers -> 1-2% Source: ChatGPT Story: “ Person 1: Want a cigarette? Person

Big thinking questions What do I spend a silly amount of money on? How might I scratch my own itch? What if I did the opposite for 48 hours? What woul

Every evening I try to set aside five or ten minutes to pray what Saint Ignatius called the prayer of Examen. After putting our toddler down, I lie on

Take 30 minutes every day to journal on an idea and explore its repercussions or deeper considerations. Then, go share those reflections with someone.

Smart people are uniquely vulnerable to mistaking complexity for insight. An executive writes a ten-page memo that could be one. An engineer builds

Simplicity is difficult because most of us are overcompensating for uncertainty. Adding something is easy. But removing something is hard, because it

“The highest level of mastery is simplicity. Most information is irrelevant and most effort is wasted, but only the expert knows what to ignore.”

Complexity gives a comforting impression of control, while simplicity is hard to distinguish from cluelessness.