🤔 INTERESTING
The Growth Paradox
The best way to scale and improve any one thing is not through addition, but through subtraction.
I started this summer with a stupid mistake of trying to aim at 3 big goals at the same time:
start writing a book
go all-in on YouTube
build something for the 500+ alumni of Thinking in Visual Metaphors.
And didn’t make significant progress on any of them.
There’s only so many nutrients in the soil. Time, effort, focus. Spread them out and you might get a bunch of sprouts. But not nearly enough for any of them to bear fruit.
📐 DESIGN
Friendly reminder for the week
Most people compare destinations without comparing journeys.
🔮 ENCHANTING
The year is not over yet.
Let's get after it. 💪
Inspiration is everywhere 😁
🧠 ANALOGY
I don't know about you, but I've never regretted pausing to respond.
But definitely regretted plenty of reactions.
🤓 WHAT I’M READING NOW
I’ve been a long time fan of Nathan Pyle’s “Strange Planet” comics, so I was delighted to find this weird funky mix of his comics + drawing / writing prompts in “The Existence Chronicle.” There’s something both innocent and deeply probing in Nathan’s prompts.
“What inanimate object do you get irrationally angry at?”
“Describe a time you very slowly realize you made a mistake”
“Describe a time your vital organ was wounded” (aka heartbreak)
I love how Strange Planet gives us a glimpse of what it means to be human from the outside looking in (literally from an alien perspective).
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