Tag: habits
How I Met My Writing Goal for the Month
Writing the pages Ain’t been no fun at all History will tell us that you were small —Good Rats The first month of 2019 is now in the books. Only 11 months left to reach my audacious goal of writing 250,000 words this year. So how did the first month go? Very well actually. I…
Don’t Tell Me You Can’t Get Inspired
What inspires you to write? What makes your creative juices flow? Is it the aroma of fresh coffee at Starbucks—the low din of background voices, the cushy chairs and the soft music that rev you up? Or is it a fresh page in a new notebook or writing journal? How about sitting on a deck…
It’s the Culture, Stupid
The other day I came across a video about Jean Yang, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon who is developing a programming language with built-in security and privacy features. If you want to watch the entire video, which runs for slightly more than two minutes, you can do so here. The short snippet below captures…
The 10 Things You Need to Do Daily to Become Financially Independent
Anyone familiar with this blog knows that I’m fond of saying, “your habits are your destiny.” And ever since I read the book, The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande, I’m fond of checklists. So for this post, I’d like to combine these two beloved things—an adage and a tool—and gear them toward personal finance. In…