People are afraid of vulnerability so they do stupid things. — Unless you’re a LinkedIn groupie like me, you probably missed this. A post on LinkedIn blew up with an image of a CEO of a social media agency crying. I know what you’re thinking: “He runs a social media company and this was a performance.” I don’t think it was…

According to a large survey I conducted via email/Twitter. They’ll surprise the heck out of you. — Writing online has changed my life in unthinkable ways. It can do the same for many of you. After asking via Twitter and email why you don’t write, it surprises me. Many of you don’t see yourselves as writers. Yet every day you write emails and send them to people…

Getting a few weeks off a year to relax and being told what to do for the next 40+ years is the definition of hell. — Lying to yourself can have a huge upside. I lied to myself for years and worked in finance. I told myself “this is fun.” This was clearly a lie for a guy who can barely do basic math. I hate numbers. They make me vomit. But I lied to myself…

Early warning sign: thinking the stupidity of others is at an all-time high — Burnout is like the boogie monster. When you’re not paying attention it creeps up on you, smacks you in the face, and makes you scream. Burnout moves slowly at the start. The longer you notice it’s not there the faster its horrific impacts start negatively affecting your life. …

I call Olivia Newton-John an angel because many — especially Americans — don’t know what she did for the world. — Money can’t always save your life. An angel — Olivia Newton-John — was taken from us recently. It’s weird to say, but she was a family friend. Some of the personal stories involving her are wild, and maybe I’ll share them one day. For now, she is gone forever. For…

The productivity gods with their Seneca tweets are gonna block me. — Productivity culture feels like a rainbow unicorn fantasy. Some would say I’m partly to blame. I love self-help and productivity. It really gets me off, if ya know what I mean, so I write about it. On a call with Sean Kernan the other day he said “Wow, it’s early…

The story to stop you from wasting your life — Marriage is weird. The day before, you have a mother and father. Right after your wedding, you have an entirely new family to get to know. I got lucky. My father-in-law is such an interesting man. He’s a jigsaw puzzle to me because he doesn’t speak English. Still, I got…

A few shortcuts to financial freedom. — Money is a hidden religion. Most of you go to work each day to earn money and then tell people at the Sunday BBQ that “I don’t care about money. Money is bad for you.” My question is “why do you spend most of your life working for money then?”…

They can make you rethink the illusion of time. — The study of time is one of the most powerful things you can do. I’ve spent the last 8 years being obsessed with how time works. The more you learn about time the harder it gets to understand. On the one hand life is long. On the other hand, compared…