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30 Mini Essays on Self-Improvement and Happiness in The Modern World

An exploration of productivity, technology, and personal thriving All of my essays from the January 2021 Ship 30 for 30 Challenge

Leverage, Environment, and Books

Three Short Lessons From Hosting an Interview Podcast while Still In College Our goals for the show were simple: grow an audience, learn about entrepreneurship, and gain access to incredibly smart mentors.

Skipping The Line In Life

9 Takeaways from The Third Door What if he could ask the world’s most successful people for guidance in this phase of life? What if Bill Gates taught him entrepreneurship, Lady Gaga taught him music, and Warren Buffet taught him finance?

Make Your Mess Your Message

The Most Interesting Thing I Learned Today To make journaling worthwhile, ask yourself interesting questions. Here’s an easy one: what is one thing I learned today? You can’t claim to know something until you’ve tried to explain it to someone else. Today’s question challenges you to do just that.

Why You Need To Have A Unified Theory

Are you building toward something? Elon Musk's genius reputation is amplified when you realize that everything he does is mutually reinforcing in the short and long term. Elon does not know at what point his projects will converge into space colonization. Elon does know that his probability of reaching Mars increases with each of his activities, so he'll stay the course.

Why Does Tempe's Target Sell So Much Tito's

Writing Prompts Are Helpful This is day four of this experimental “journal in public” format for me. I don’t have a theme to write about, so I created four prompts. Then, I answered them.

Podcasting As Leverage

Journaling In Public - Number One I'm dividing the written content on this site between the 'blog' which is a collection of more thoughtfully produced articles and the 'journal' which is more raw and reflective.

21 Rules For Getting Your Shit Together

It’s my 21st birthday — I wanted to write something After bombing a math test in my first month of college, I overreacted so dramatically that I developed an obsessive and vague drive to “get my shit together” that continues to this day.

Computers Broke the Old World

Why I Want To Start The Accelerated Masters Program at The University of Alabama Zero marginal-cost economics, instant digital delivery, globally accessible talent pools, international communication networks, and computational power have completely redefined modern life.

Make Failure Suck

The Silver Bullet of Accountability Leverage external consequences to win internal battles.

The Torah and Deep Work

How Shabbat Subsumes Mainstream Self-Help and Productivity Advice Through Deep Work, the secular community is coming to terms with facts that have been known to the Jewish community for millennia.

The Power of Positive Constraints

Making one decision to simplify thousands of future decisions. Whenever I need to take something more seriously, I come up with a challenge to guide me into action.

Take Control of Your Education

Five Books Every College Student Needs to Read In my first year of school, I read the following books. Without a doubt, I would not have achieved a fraction of my goals otherwise.

Who Is Cal Newport?

Why Am I Obsessed With His Work? Newport is an incredibly prolific academic, author, and blogger and he reached this level of professional success with stunning speed.

The Power of Mindset

Lessons Learned from Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck Individuals, empowered by Dweck’s research can manipulate their own reality in their favor by embracing the appropriate mindset.