What is the Lindy Effect?
“I follow the Lindy effect as a guide in selecting what to read: books that have been around for ten years will be around for ten more; books that have been around for two millennia should be around for quite a bit of time, and so forth.”Nassim Nicholas Taleb –…
5 Lessons From the Great Eliud Kipchoge
On October 12, 2019, at 11:15 PM, I was sitting on my couch for the start of the Ineos 1:59 challenge. Halfway around the world in Vienna, Austria, the timers began as Eliud Kipchoge started his attempt to break the sub-two-hour marathon. I watched the entire event. Emotion overtook me…
What I Learned From Analyzing My Goodreads Data
In Nassim Taleb’s bestselling book The Black Swan he says, “[he] completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television.” This freed up one hour or more a day, which he said, “[was] enough time to read more than a hundred additional books per year, which, after a couple of decades,…
Profound Ideas From Sterling Sill’s ‘Bottles and Books’
There are times in your life where you read something and it sticks with you. It changes the way you think and act. Somehow, it never seems to fully leave you. I’ve had a handful of these moments in my life. Today I’d like to share what I’ve learned from…
How I Boosted my Productivity in 2018 by Tracking How I Spent my Time
Note – This article was originally published on my LinkedIn profile on January 1, 2019. One of my goals for 2018 was to log every hour of every day. I’ll describe how I did this further down, but doing this taught me a lot about how I spend my time…