The Harvest Will Come

A Defense of Human Seasons

2025 Productivity Update

Westenberg Pro

Every Decision Has Three Costs: Time, Focus, and Optionality

Why Decisions Are More Expensive Than You Think

Your 80 Year Old Self Would Give Anything to Have the Day You're Having.

Before the Baseline Breaks

Life Isn't Chess. It's Poker.

The Power of Thinking in Bets

Personal Business

Via Charles Broskoski

We're All Unreliable Narrators

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You Are Not Late

How to Stay Sane in a World That Rewards Insanity

Is There Still a Return on Being Reasonable?

Letters to Your Younger Self Are a Scam

The Futility of Trying to Tell Your Younger Self Anything Useful

Interview: Ken Case (OmniFocus)

This Guy Shipped Apps Before You Knew What an App Was

Members-Only Q&A: October

Ask Me (Almost) Anything

Be a Magpie. You'll Get More Done.

The Magpie Method = No Method + Every Method

Why You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer)

Writing Is Thinking With the Training Wheels Off

Cheap Certainty Is Eating the World

Westenberg Pro

The Map Is Not the Territory (and It’s Definitely Not Progress)

How Smart People Stay Stuck

You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.

A Short Guide to Being Infinitesimally Small

Why Stories Make You Smarter Than Self-Help Books

The Smartest People You Know Still Read Novels

You Are Not the Final Generation

A Brief History of Doom

Members Only Q&A

September Q&A

The Illusion of Independent Thought

Everyone’s a Philosopher Until the Algorithm Chooses the Tribe

996 Just Means You Have No Leverage

The Performance of Work Is Not Work

There is Only One Hack: Do it for a Decade.

Just Keep Doing the Thing

Forget Finding Yourself. Lose Yourself Instead.

Stop Trying to Pick the Perfect Path

The Exhaustion of Permanent Disruption

The Slow Death of Mastery