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Cravings

We often complain about our attention drifting, but the fact that we don’t hold our attention in an unrelenting way turns out to have an ...

The Invention of Attention

So far as I can determine, the first person history records as having read silently was Ambrose of Rome in the fourth century. (No doubt ...

What moves you?

What moves you? Bad actors in crime dramas, after they discover, “You can’t prove that,” doesn’t apply to Dick Wolf, invariably claim, “I...

Allowable Leakage

If you look closely at the image of Boston’s Quincy Market, built in 1825, you’ll note a fire hydrant in the foreground. That hydrant is ...

Humans are an apprentice-learned craft

If you’re in my social circle and acquired a child, I’m likely to have given you The Scientist in the Crib. What I like most about it, a...

Getting to No

My second favorite word is no. It keeps me from wasting my time. Many people know I came to the GTD methodology as a client myself. It w...

What are you curious about?

How come, when we're given information, our minds don't change? We use “changing our minds” as a metaphor, and our minds have plenty of c...

Flunk Your Next Test

“I want you to flunk your next test,” I said to my daughter. She was in her first year at high school. She was hardworking, conscientiou...

Grow your leadership by holding opposites

Hard to do, but vitally important as a leader is to hold opposites, and to mentor others to do the same. In this I remember today, as I d...

Five hours and 400 miles later...

Eastern Colorado. Dropped down from Denver, put on cruise control, and set the tiller for the Delaware Water Gap. Pulled up in front of ...

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