The Beginner's Mind
As the political and business leaders meet in Paris to discuss global climate change, the topic of a changing climate has never been more important and relevant. It’s a fact of life that everything is always changing. When the conditions under
When learning something new, the first step we all go through is to figure out how this new thing relates to something we already know. For example, if you’re learning a new language as an adult, you learn the parts
There’s a fantastic podcast interview with Scott Adams (creator of the Dilbert cartoon) on Tim Ferriss’s blog from a few weeks ago. If you only listen to one podcast this year, and you only listen to the first hour of that one podcast (this
One of our VIP readers emailed us with this question: “Is there something quick and easy that you offer? I would like to dip my toes in and spend 10 or 15 minutes once a week learning something new. Maybe offering
The line between marketing and entertainment is more blurry than ever. We see it on social media all the time; a headline will read “We have something amazing to show you!”; and that something has been compiled, packaged, tested to
In his (now classic) book, The Lean Startup, Eric Reis defines a pivot as a course correction in order to test a new fundamental hypothesis. For example, let’s say that you launch a taco customization and delivery service and once you’re
How often and easy is it to keep looking down at our feet as we plod along our path, when there is a whole world of possibility and new ideas all around us? There is no way we can learn
Zipf’s law says that, given any corpus of text, the second most used word will be used half as many times as the first most used. The third most-used word will be used one-third as many times. The fourth most-used
With a combined total of 8 books and three online courses between us, we’re seen as authorities in computer programming and web development. Being a published author has a way of instantly making someone an expert in the eyes of the world. In
Near Mendocino, CA, there’s a forest of pygmy trees. Here, the soil conditions are so bad that 100-year-old redwood trees, which can grow to over 300 feet tall, stand at just 6 to 8 feet. As the description on mendocino.com says: the trees