Productivity
Systems, habits, workflows, and personal optimization
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Executive Coaching Is Expensive. Daily Accountability Doesn’t Have to Be
One of the most useful things for personal productivity isn’t a to-do app. It isn’t a new notebook, a better calendar, or a more elaborate morning routine either. It’s having someone ask good questions on a regular basis. That’s the real value of executive coaching. A good coach helps you decide what matters, pushes back…
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I Couldn’t Afford an Executive Coach, So I Built One
Over the weekend I was talking with a high-level executive coach. Smart person. Real deal. Halfway through the conversation, they offered me a spot in their group program — a dozen people, regular group sessions, accountability framework, the whole package. I passed. Not because it wasn’t valuable. It clearly was. But the price point was…
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My 2026 Resolution: Rebuild the Morning
I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions. Most of them are wishful thinking dressed up as commitment. But this year I’m trying something different—I’m not adding new habits, I’m recovering old ones. Not setting goals, just simple routines. These are habits I’ve had before. Habits I know work for me. Habits I let slip during…
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Goals and Goal Setting
I’m one of those people who have stubbornly made new years resolutions for many years. Sometimes they stick and sometimes they don’t. What I’ve learned about what works and what doesn’t comes down to these core lessons: Lets dig in. Action over Results I might have in my mind that I want to lose 10lbs…
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3D Printing: is it Worthwhile?
I got my hands on my first 3D printer back in 2018. My goal was to use it to enable a couple projects that I had in mind but which I had hit a wall and unable to build them with the tools I had. The 3D printer was supposed to unlock a world of…
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2023 Health Strategy
Your health REALLY IS the foundation of running a successful business. Here’s a sustainable plan that has already helped me lose 35lbs this year. This year I have already lost 35 lbs. It’s a big visual change that has also improved several unexpected other health benefits. The benefits have been numerous: There are 3 pillars…
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Factorio
I don’t often get to play video games, but I have put in 242 hours on Factorio. These are my favorite kind of games – resource management. And this one in particular focuses on one of my favorite things to think about – factories. The game features a complex tech tree of products that need…
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Pace of Innovation
Our ability to be productive is the most critical metric that determines quality of life. It’s a fundamental measurement of how the economy is doing, identifys where we are stagnating, and shows where the biggest gains are. There are many factors that go into improving productivity – capital investment in tooling, factories and better software,…
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Global Kick Towards Abundance
The utopian future portrayed in Star Trek takes place is a post scarcity society where money has lost it’s importance and people more or less have the access to food, energy and housing they need to live as well as the freedom to acheive their personal life ambitions without worrying about where the next paycheque…
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Change Begets Change
It’s amazing just how much making a change can trickle to other changes in life. Moving and a new Job are things that can kick off a cascade of other impacts. This year I did both of those things. Switching from a self-employed, and renting back to employed in a normal 9-5, and owning +…
