We live in houses maximized for square footage and filled with commoditized furniture. Our neighborhoods feel soulless, disconnected. Cities around the world are laid out with complicated zoning and laws that are impossible to navigate. It feels like we don’t have much control over our environment.
Most days you scroll through twitter and get nothing out of it. Some days you see tweets like this: Lose weight? Free money? What’s the catch? You have to send this guy $800. If someone on twitter asks you to venmo them $800, please run away.
In his book The Goal, Eliyahu Goldratt explores the Theory of Constraints (TOC). TOC posits: in any system, there is at least one constraint holding back throughput. Attempting to improve throughput anywhere besides the constraint makes the problem worse.
I blew $361.84 trying to game Robinhood’s free stock promotion. The best way to learn is to learn by doing. To avoid doing, I read books and articles all day. It’s ‘Productive’ procrastination. Reading is great, but until I put whatever it is I’m learning into practice I don’t truly understand.
I’m home from work but can’t relax. My head is all over the place. Deadlines at work. Big changes coming at my other job. How to plan for all of this? I need to do this-and-that for my side project! I also need to pay bills and exercise and make dinner and…
Floating along and just going through the day-to-day motions makes me really unhappy. If my mood is off, 90% of the time it’s because I’ve been stagnant. I bet a lot of my readers feel the same way. To fight this, always be running an experiment.