Happy arbitrary period called “year 2018”! 🙂 I wish you lots of health, great relationships and interesting experiences. Learn, experiment, do more of things you enjoy and occasionally do things that scare you or feel uncomfortable – that’s how we grow. And of course spend ample time with those you love and respect and want … Continue reading
Shay Carl recommends that we should ask ourselves the question “What would I probably tell myself as 10 year older version of myself?”. Of course you can’t, you know what would 10-year-older version of yourself would tell you. Because you can’t really see into the future. So what is the point of that question? What you get … Continue reading
Answer: it looks like I need it. Or at least I’ll test it. But first I should explain why I think it’s a good idea. Last few weeks I was revisiting some of the older experiments that worked well, to remind myself of their power. There are few things going on in my life which … Continue reading
Remembering things is a meta-skill that boosts many of the other skills. Yes, we now outsource our memory to Google, but some things are just too useful to forget – important things we need to do our job right, people we need to recognize, or just cool facts we can use to impress our friends. … Continue reading
I’m obsessed with efficiency and productivity. And sometimes I just like to find ways how to do things faster, even though they may not be important or useful at all. Typing is one of those activities where it’s useful to make the distinction between being effective (type fast) and being efficient (create good content). But sometime it’s … Continue reading
The idea to experiment with removing caffeine from my life came from chapter about Jocko Willink in Tools of Titans book. Jocko is former SEAL commander, who, after leaving the army officially, co-founded successful leadership and management company and wrote best-selling book Extreme Ownership. I expressed my mixed feelings about Jocko in previous post, so … Continue reading
Week 14 experiment – life without caffeine – was inspired by chapter about Jocko Willink, former Navy SEAL turned successful writer and entrepreneur. He is the co-author of Extreme Ownership concept. Jocko’s interview with Tim was probably his first public one, and since then he started his own podcast which seem to be quite successful. … Continue reading
Seth Godin recommends in Tools of Titans to keep track of good things – because what we track changes our perception. And this was what I was doing. Every day throughout the whole week I wrote down all the moments when I’ve done something better than usual, helped someone or was helped, stayed calm in … Continue reading
Earlier this week we had first meetup of Life Hackers Singapore group. I founded the group as part of the care-bear-stare experiment from early July, hoping to build a community of people with interest to improve themselves and share the knowledge and experiment together. The meetup group only has 45 members now, and only 9 … Continue reading
