Mind Your Bite #17: Everything is a trade-off: Everything is a trade-off. If you wind down with a movie after work, you miss working out in the gym. If you're too much of a nerdy, you miss out on your social life. If you choose to skimp the text, you miss the joy of reading. You can only do one thing at a time. This applies to your daily life, relationship, and career. Read more
Mind Your Bite #18: "I think people sympathize with what I do because I do it from here": I stumbled upon this phrase last night while reading Forte Labs blog “Pleasure Activism”. It’s the name of a book by Adrienne Maree Browse who argues that pleasure could replace pain to be an organizing principle of the modern world. Although the term concerns “movement building and social change”, it could also be used as a principle of work: If you enjoy what you do, you will be more productive. Read more
Mind Your Bite #21: Do you have anything worthwhile to share? Your feel-good remixed content doesn't do anybody good. At its best, it “attracts your fellow beginners” who’s excited to regurgitate the same thing. What you should focus on instead is to "do meaningful things, to solve real world problems, and to be the man in the arena". In other words, before you create content, you should ask yourself: Do you have anything worthwhile to share? Read more