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The Three Most Useful Words in Any Profession: I Don’t Know
Early in my career I bluffed when I should’ve admitted ignorance, and it cost a client real money. The day I started saying ‘I don’t know, I’ll find out,’ my reputation went up, not down.
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Your Excuses Are Very Reasonable. Do It Anyway.
The most dangerous excuses are the true ones. You are tired. It is late. It has been a hard week. All correct. None of it changes what needs doing.
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Buy It Once: What Cheap Tools Actually Cost
I’ve bought the cheap version of almost everything, twice, and then the good one. The expensive tool was never the expensive choice. It just had an honest price tag.
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The Day After You Get What You Wanted
The license, the launch, the number in the account. You’ve imagined the day a hundred times. Nobody mentions the morning after, which is where a lot of people quietly fall apart.
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The Fastest Way to Learn Something Is to Teach It Next Week
I understood my trade properly for the first time the week I had to explain it to a room of strangers. Nothing exposes what you don’t know like the moment you try to say it out loud.
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The Shutdown Ritual: How to Actually Leave Work at Work
I used to carry the whole office home in my head and wonder why I couldn’t be present at dinner. Five minutes at the end of the day fixed most of it, and the method is almost embarrassingly simple.
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What to Do When You Don’t Know What You Want
Everyone tells you to follow what you want, as if you’d been issued a list at birth. If you weren’t, here’s how to find out without waiting for a lightning bolt.
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Forgive Yourself for the Years. Then Stop Counting Them.
The decade I wasted is a fact. The arithmetic I do about it every morning is a choice, and it’s the most expensive habit I had left. Here’s how I put it down.
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Nothing Is Free. The Price Is Just Hidden.
The free trial, the free seminar, the free app. I’ve paid more for free things than for almost anything I bought outright. The invoice just came in a currency I wasn’t watching.
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If You Can’t Write It Down, You Haven’t Thought It Through
I used to believe I’d thought about a problem because I’d worried about it. Then I tried to write the problem down in one paragraph and discovered I didn’t actually know what it was.
The WisdomDeck Blog
Essays on living in agreement with how things actually work — discipline, focus, habits, money, time and the laws behind The Reality Code.