Latest Posts
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Announcing Optionality, the Book: How You Can Get Involved
As many of you know, I've been working on a book project for the last few years.
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Is Blogging Worth It? A Cheap Option for Attracting Serendipity
Blogging is an endurance sport. As Deep Dish's 4th birthday approaches—a million views, a thousand comments—I have a decent sense of whether it's been worth it.
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Make Frugality Great Again!
The modern practice of frugality has become a funhouse-mirror perversion of the original virtue. What happened?
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Getting Hacked and Getting Hard
CLEARANCE SALE! VANS SHOES CHEAP! I was as surprised as anyone to hear that I'd pivoted from blogging to hawking knock-off footwear on Facebook.
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It's Such a Perfect Day
'Rise and grind' posts are cringe, but let's not toss the baby out with the essential oil-infused bathwater. What can Science TM tell us about the perfect daily routine?
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The Commonplace Book: How to Get Compound Interest on Your Ideas
The magic happens in the nooks where ideas collide and fuse, but we have to create the right conditions for recombination.
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Notes on Note Taking: How to Read a Book
At the risk of offending my favourite productivity pornographers, most of what is written about note taking spectacularly misses the point.
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A Repository of Cool Stuff For People Who Are Somewhat Like Us
Trying to appeal to everyone at once is the death knell for writing, art, business, even dating. And it goes both ways: if you put bland, generic things into the world, that's what you get back.
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Roam Research for Getting Things Done (GTD)
This is a GTD guide I wrote for the Roam Research team. There are dozens of possible implementations, each tailored to a different set of tools and preferences. This one is mine.
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Kindly Stop Saying The Efficient Market Hypothesis is Dead
There are whispers that the efficient-market hypothesis is dead, or dying, or at least has a very nasty cough. But rumours of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
