The SpoonFed Ideas Newsletter Every Sunday, I promise to give you three things. One idea. One action. One update. All to supercharge your life and help you make use of the short time you have here. the idea. There’s a hierarchy of habits in all of our lives. Bottom of this pyramid is all this life stuff... things you have to do to keep the lights on. It’s foundational and inescapable, and sometimes downright annoying. Hence why it’s at the bottom of this pyramid... because it’s also just the...
about 1 year ago • 3 min read
The SpoonFed Ideas Newsletter Every Sunday, I promise to give you three things. One idea. One action. One update. All to supercharge your life and help you make use of the short time you have here. the idea. Delayed gratification. The crown jewel of productivity. Whether it's fighting procrastination, going to the gym or trying to learn a skill, there seems to be a general rule. The longer you are willing to wait, the bigger the reward that is eventually given. Take the age old question......
about 1 year ago • 4 min read
The SpoonFed Ideas Newsletter Every Sunday, I promise to give you three things. One idea. One action. One update. All to supercharge your life and help you make use of the short time you have here. the idea. If you want to be the greatest basketball player alive, what do you think you’d do? Probably play a shit ton of basketball right? But how much is a shit ton exactly? 8-hours a day for 7-days a week? 12-hours a day maybe? Hell, might as well just sleep with the basketball in your bed. It...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read
The SpoonFed Ideas Newsletter Every Sunday, I promise to give you three things. One idea. One action. One update. All to supercharge your life and help you make use of the short time you have here. the idea. “Anything is possible, so long as it doesn’t break the laws of physics.” - some wise old dude. It was true in the 1800s when people still thought girls had cooties and it’s even more true today. the poster I hang up in my hospital office Especially today… considering the entirety of human...
about 1 year ago • 4 min read
The SpoonFed Ideas Newsletter Every Sunday, I promise to give you three things. One idea. One action. One update. All to supercharge your life and help you make use of the short time you have here. the idea. Algorithmic complacency. It describes a state we all fall into by default - a state of passive consumption. Your youtube, your instagram, your newsfeed. Wherever you get your information, you’ve pretty much relinquished all control to some computer program to dictate what you see, hear or...
about 1 year ago • 3 min read
The SpoonFed Ideas Newsletter Every Sunday, I promise to give you three things. One idea. One action. One update. All to supercharge your life and help you make use of the short time you have here. the idea. Any time you are faced a choice, realize there are always three paths. The common path, the path that 99% of the population take. It’s usually the path of least resistance. It’s sometimes called the let’s do it tomorrow path. The ah well, whatever, I’ll sit on this couch and stuff my face...
about 1 year ago • 4 min read
The SpoonFed Ideas Newsletter Every Sunday, I promise to give you three things. One idea. One action. One update. All to supercharge your life and help you make use of the short time you have here. one idea. If you’ve ever taken a basic physics class, you probably remember how to draw force diagrams. A simple block sits in the middle of the page representing an object falling down to the ground. You have one arrow pointing to the ground - that’s gravity. And you have another arrow pointing...
about 1 year ago • 4 min read
The SpoonFed Ideas Newsletter Every Sunday, I promise to give you three things. One idea. One action. One update. All to supercharge your life and push you to get what you want out of the short time you have here. the idea We all know the formula. Success = hard work x talent x luck Out of the three variables in this formula, you can only control one of them because one, you’re born with whatever talent you have two, luck is just this x-factor you can’t control and so the solution is to do...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read
The SpoonFed Ideas Newsletter Every Sunday, I promise to give you three things. One idea. One action. One update. All to supercharge your life and push you to get what you want out of the short time you have here. one idea. In the start-up world, there’s a concept called the minimum viable product (MVP). Resources are limited and so, your job isn’t to create the fanciest, most advanced version of your product possible, it’s to create the opposite - the bare minimum solution that gets the...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read