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- Learning New Things
- Storylines at Chicago
- Feeding Swans
- Talking About Tipping
- Florida Vacation
- Diabetes and the Case Against Sugar
- Swan Brewing
- AI and the Future of Work
- Fixing Social Networks
- Farnam Street Podcast with Shopify Founder
- Designing for the Extremes
- How to Effectively Delegate and Avoid Stealing Success From Your Teammates
- Juggling Roles
- Humility and Curiosity
- How (and Why) Do You Protect an Idea?
- Do Hard Things With Good People (and Other Life Maxims I’ve Borrowed)
- Why You Should Be Obsessed With the Frontline of Your Business
- The 3 Foundational Roles of Successful Leaders
- The Toxic Tandem in Leadership
- 2017 Retrospective
- Create More Value Than You Consume
- Building a Photo Site With GatsbyJS Part 4 – Building a Grid Photo Layout
- Building a Photo Site With GatsbyJS Part 3 – Building the Header
- Building With GatsbyJS Part 2 – Determining the Layout and Understanding GraphQL Queries
- Building a Photo Site With GatsbyJS and the WordPress.com API
- Hour of Code 2017 and Beyond
- Experimenting With GatsbyJS and the WordPress.com API
- Adding a Widget Area After the Post
- Surviving in the Gig Economy
- A Refresh to My GTD System
- Troubles and Triumphs When Re-Building Our Customer Onboarding Process at WordPress.com
- Building a Rock Solid Career Reputation
- We Should All Be a Bit Angry
- A Comprehensive Look at How to Give Better Feedback
- Be Unnecessary (And Two More Tricky Leadership Principles)
- Monthly Review: August 2017
- The Failure of Kodak: Why New Ideas Feel Risky
- The Planning Fallacy: Why We Overcommit And How to Stop
- You’re Not That Great (aka How to Stay Grounded)
- How to Avoid Decision Fatigue by Setting Default Habits
- What’s your creative advantage?
- Monthly Review: July 2017
- How to Kickstart a Feedback Culture on Your Team
- Moving Up the Care Personally Axis (Radical Candor)
- Do You Raise the Average?
- Monthly Review: June 2017
- Here’s a Wacky Exercise: Try Writing Your Own Eulogy
- The Unpracticed Art of Receiving Feedback
- Using Rhetoric to Amplify Your Message
- Who is setting your standards?
- Cus D’Amato on the Difference Between a Hero and a Coward
- Why Remote Work Can’t Be Stopped
- What does the finish line look like?
- Monthly Review: May 2017
- One free way to increase motivation
- Focus on the hard part
- Building Many Different Career Ladders
- Establishing forward momentum
- 2016 Retrospective
- Changing Your Base Assumptions
- I don’t know how…
- Behavioral or Attitudinal Loyalty
- Creating your own luck
- Fred Kofman on Why Your Job Is Not Your Job
- Effort, Tactical, or Adaptive Goals
- What if no one shows up?
- The precursor to giving feedback
- Spend time evaluating successes
- Script the Critical Moves
- Reverting back to what made you successful
- What about the customer’s that don’t say anything?
- The wrong incentives and workplace motivation
- Two Polarizing Customer Support Examples
- Reading for Your Weekend
- Find the Gap
- New Experiment: Let’s learn together
- Solve the problems you have…
- Give yourself a second score
- The first part is usually hard
- What skills are worth paying for?
- Monthly Review: November 2016
- Come With a Blank Slate
- The Three Forms of Feedback
- How to keep and grow great customer support talent
- The Irrational User
- Receiving Feedback as a Team Lead
- Hierarchy of Engagement
- Our Thanksgiving Day Celebration
- Day Zero: A new way to define customer success
- Jeff Vincent on solving customer problems
- How Can You Make Developers Care About the End-User?
- Management in Ten Tweets
- Give Them a Chance to Disappoint You
- The way we think about charity is dead wrong
- Tools I Use to Manage My Time
- How I’ve Managed to Grow My Career Without Managing People
- Bots versus humans in support
- My Winding Path to Customer Support
- What makes us feel good about our work?
- Know Thy Time
- Write Code Every Day
- Monthly Review: October 2016
- Drucker on an Effective Decision Process
- Three Years at Automattic
- Scott Belsky on Crafting the First Mile of a Product
- Your Users Aren’t Exactly Like You
- Getting the Right Things Done
- Tips for Effective 1-1’s
- Brené Brown on Empathy
- Building Team Camaraderie in a Remote Environment
- Highs & Lows of Leading a Team
- Shawn Blanc on Content Strategy
- I wasted 4 years of my life doing this
- Cal Newport—Quit Social Media
- Two Leadership Lessons From Bill Walsh
- The Problem with “Constructive Feedback”
- This is How I Work
- Practical Thoughts on Career Progression
- The Tragic Gap
- Does that matter?
- Our Current Process for Handling Feedback
- Building Your Own Inner Scorecard
- Monthly Review: September 2016
- How do you push people without killing morale?
- Kicking Off Another Year of Drink for Pink
- Monthly Review: August 2016
- How All Hands Support Works at Automattic
- Looking Back on Year One as a Team Lead
- Monthly Review: July 2016
- Handling Negativity in Customer Support
- Building a Simple React Todo List and Timer
- Leaders Adding Too Much Value
- My Approach to Learning JavaScript
- Monthly Review: April 2016 (And 2016 Goal Checkin)
- Monthly Review: March 2016
- What You Say vs. What They Hear
- Monthly Review: February 2016
- Developing a Process for Better 1 on 1’s
- Static is the Worst Place to Be
- Monthly Review: January 2016
- What I Mean When I Say “I Don’t Have Time”
- Deep Work in Practice – Applying Cal’s Concepts
- Edison, Light Bulbs, and Idea Collision
- 2015 Retrospective
- Monthly Review: December 2015
- How I Think About My Career
- “No, because…” – The Benefits of Rehearsing Objections
- Help Me Ship in 2016
- How I Set Goals and Avoid Overwhelm
- Monthly Review: November 2015
- Code Challenge: Simple Mode
- Code Challenge: Greatest Common Factor
- Code Challenge: Triple Double
- Monthly Review: October 2015
- Code Challenge: Consecutive
- Code Challenge: Additive Persistence
- Code Challenge: Number Search
- Code Challenge: Blackjack
- Code Challenge: String Reduction
- Code Challenge: Recurring Letters
- Code Challenge: Reverse, Reverse!
- Build a Better Signal
- Code Challenge: Find the second greatest length
- Code Challenge: What’s Wrong With This Game?
- Let’s Take More Microadventures
- How to Take a Successful Vacation
- Take a Regular Learning Vacation
- Closing The Expert Gap
- 2015
- The Importance of Self-Learning and 5 Key Steps to Put Into Practice
- 5 Lessons I’ve Learned From One Year at Automattic
- Where to Find Ideas
- Mental Pictures
- Yes, I Work in Customer Support
- NFL and the American Cancer Society
- Cat’s Cradle
- Buy Experiences, Not Things
- A Day in the Life of a Happiness Engineer
- Start Something That Matters
- Einstein on Reading Fiction
- Never Lose That Feeling
- Majoring in the Minor
- Come Alive
- Living a Meaningful Life
- iPhone Camera Evolution
- Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
- Creativity and Memory
- Reading List – Summer 2014
- How to Make Better Decisions Based on Science
- How to Become More Creative
- Define Success on Your Own Terms
- How to Improve Your Reading Retention on Any Device
- How to Force Yourself to Improve
- The Power of Posture & How to Improve It
- Using Constraints to Make Better Decisions (Like Walking Away From $2 Million)
- The Benefits of Doing Nothing (and Why You Should Do It More Often)
- What A Workout Does to Your Brain
- Four Pieces of Training Advice That Work
- PUSH: A Fitness Tracker That Measures Power and Strength
- Intangible Benefits (Why Success Isn’t Always Obvious)
- 5 Massage Therapy Methods (and How to Make Them Last)
- The Beginner’s Guide to Using Protein Powder
- The Power of Posture (And How to Improve Your Own)
- The Best Protein Powder for You
- Revisiting My Morning Routine
- 5 Exercise Progressions to Build Strength
- The Pros and Cons of Cheat Days
- May 2014 Review
- Super Freakonomics
- The Obstacle is the Way
- The Intersection of Health Research and Actual Fitness Improvements
- Buy the Internet You Want to Read
- Autopilot: The Art and Science of Doing Nothing
- The Choice-Minimal Lifestyle
- The Evolution of Fitness Trackers
- Creativity, Inc.
- April 2014 Review
- 5 Hormones That Have a Big Effect on Your Health
- This is Your Brain on Exercise
- Hustling in the Margins
- Make Personal Training Work for You
- Vivofit Review
- Your Words Matter
- Writing Routine
- Get Fit in Half the Time
- K-Cups in Glass Houses
- Professional Amatuer
- Writing is For Everyone
- March 2014 Review
- On Education and Physical Activity
- Becoming Numb
- Letting Yourself Off the Hook
- View From Mt. Sanitas
- Ramifications of Quantified Self
- 10 ½ Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said
- Show Your Work
- Steal Like an Artist
- It’s That Simple
- The Fault in Our Stars
- Permission to Do What You Want
- The Invention of the Aeropress
- 30 Days of a New Habit
- On Journaling
- This One’s for Me
- The Golden Episode
- The Seduction of Addiction: A Runner’s Confession
- The Most Dangerous Risk
- Moonwalking With Einstein
- Suli Breaks on Work
- Atlas Fitness Tracker
- Hiding Behind What You Know
- Makings of 1.24.14
- Your Glass Ceiling
- Talent is Overrated
- Do What You Love
- Long-Form Content
- Straight, No Chaser
- 5 Stretches You Could Be Doing More Effectively
- Everything That Remains
- Your Own Worst Enemy
- Use Your Quantified Self Data
- Creature of Habit
- The Alchemist
- Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
- TRX Exercises to Build Strength
- How To Succeed
- Best Ways to Measure Body Composition
- 2013
- On Spending Money
- Evolution of Blogging
- Support as Creation
- Systems vs. Goals
- Why I’m Not Buying Quantified Self (Yet)
- Train Your Heart
- Recovering Fitness Junkie
- The Writer-Reader Connection
- Headline Hyperbole
- You Don’t Get a Medal For That
- Don’t Waste Your Most Important Asset
- Don’t Wait for Perfect
- If You Hate Smoking, Don’t Make Cigarettes
- Some Thoughts on Changing Careers
- Lessons From The Most Embarrassing Story in My Young Career
- The Hedgehog and the Fox
- What Won’t You Do?
- What is College Good For?
- Building an “Us First” Attitude
- Are Affiliate Links Ruining Your Reader Relationship?
- Fully Automattic – Joining the WordPress.com Family
- Working With the Alfred App
- Experimenting With The Seven-Day Work Week
- Tomorrow, We’ll Run Faster
- Working With Pressgram
- Unintended Consequences: A Fight Club Story
- Wearing Multiple Hats
- The Most Important Member of Your Audience
- What Do You Do?
- Filter Photos, Not Ideas
- The Fear of Needing
- Minimalism vs. Restrictionism
- Share Your Failures
- Celebrating the Individual
- The Best Productivity Advice I Can Give
- Simplifying Social Media: A Case for One Channel
- Getting Comfortable With Silence
- 3 Ways to Ship Future Projects Faster
- Consume, Comprehend, Apply
- Systematizing Creativity for the Seemingly Unimaginative
- One Day, I Plan on Writing a Book
- What Tracing Trading Cards Cards Taught Me About Being an Artist
- The Worst Addiction I Have Ever Had
- The Majority of Stressors Aren’t Real
- Where Many Exercise Programs Miss the Point (And Why I Still Run Occasionally)
- Does Your Content Get Likes or Engage Users?
- The Day I Thought I Wanted to Be Donald Trump
- Does the World Need Another Post on Deadlifts?
- How I Almost Failed Graduate School Before It Started
- Have Your Beer, Your Social Life, and Your Abs Too
- Hyperfocus: How to Actually Get Stuff Done
- What’s Wrong With the Personal Training Industry (and What to Do to Fix It)
- High-Five’s, So-So’s, and Hand Grenades
- Act Like a Kid and Get More Done
- 10 Tips for Those Looking to Start Freelance Writing (and a great book to help)
- How Big Are You Living? Defining Super-Ordinary
- How to Navigate the Grocery Store Like a Boss
- 5 Strategies to Avoid Dying in Your Office Chair
- What Writing Webs Taught Me About Business and Networking
- Why I Hired Professional Help (And You Should Too)
- How Apple Sold Me a MacBook Pro 6 Months Ahead of Time
- Is Personal Training the Best Start for Your Future Career?
- A Farewell Letter to My Clients
- One Year and Two Days Later
- Why I’m Dropping Personal Training in Favor of Digital Media
- The Point When You Have to Say No…and How to Say It Better
- Thoughts on Success and Leaving Your Mark on the Cosmos
- Best Paw Forward
- Are We Too Connected? Confessions From an Apple Addict
- Why I Still Drink at Starbucks Although It’s Overpriced
- Four Ways to Increase Your Presence on Twitter
- Attitudes, Viewpoints, and Why the DMV Actually Isn’t That Terrible
- Finding the Perfect Padding, Spacing, and Formatting for Your Life
- On Writing…and Sex
- Looking Ahead to 2013
- The Resolution Guide for Everything Else (Non-Fitness Related)
- If Health Fit An Equation…
- Double-Spacing Your Life
- The Pursuit of Aesthetics
- The Rock in My Shoe
- Reverse Engineering Happiness
- Making Simple Seem Difficult: A Rant About Supplements, Exercise, and Mass Media
- What’s M_ssing?
- How to Fail at Twitter
- The Benefits of Losing Control
- Idealizing Imperfection (Why Lance is Still a Hero)
- Rock the First Hour of Your Day
- A Letter to Roman…
- Getting Past the Refusal of the Call
- Four Steps to Dominate Your Schedule
- We’re All Heroes in Some Capacity
- Revelations of Flexibility – Why Consistency Actually Works
- Points Matter in Sports and Stock – Not Weight Loss
- How Superbad Teaches You to Be Super-Awesome
- Going All-in: The Benefits of Jumping Head First
- Enjoying the Journey – Quit Focusing on the Product
- The Power of the Spork and Tools for a Healthy Lifestyle
- The Not-So-Obvious Keys to Motivation
- Three Life Lessons From The Dark Knight Rises
- 10 Questions to Ask Your Trainer
- 15 Quotes to Jack Up Your Day
- The Key to Getting Anything Done
- Nutrition: What no one is telling you
