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Building a Second Brain

This is not a science fiction post about upgrading your brain with a memory chip. The second brain approach is about elevating your existing stores of knowledge and making some sense of them. Personally I have tons of browser bookmarks, notes and reference files all over the place. This method

Aim for Business Unusual

It starts small and you have a ton of energy. You innovate and hustle to get to a comfortable state. You now settle into business as usual. You fight more to keep the status quo. The formula works, so you just tweak it and keep going. The longer you run

A Theme for 2022

New year resolutions fade fast. It's easy to fallback into default-mode until next December. Fixed time based targets keep you on track but the payoff is very slim. Yearly themes maybe a better idea. In 2022 I want to focus and align my efforts on a few key things that

Smarter Headphones

I think we need smarter headphones. Imagine for a minute if we can break away from the phone and what a smarter headphone would be able to do. * Wireless charging * Has it's own WiFi or mobile data * Download podcasts and music on device * Better voice controls on device * Smart lock

A Chat with Isura Silva About AI and the Value of Lifelong Learning

Isura Silva [https://twitter.com/isura] is a Sri Lankan entrepreneur and the founder of aucterra [https://aucterra.ai/]. We talk about AI and the value of lifelong learning. Isura and I have been chatting on twitter for a long time and we have quite similar ideas when it comes

The Future of Work is Flexible, Remote and Hybrid

About 20 years ago my favourite pastimes was looking for telecommuting jobs on craigslist. That's was it was called back in those days. I never found one at the time but since then I have worked remote-first and semi-remotely (hybrid) for many years. Since the pandemic hit, remote, flexible and