digital graveyards, focus friends, and the myth of universal systems

Last week we talked about why productivity systems fail. It's not you, it's the mismatch between how systems are designed and how you actually work.  It's easy to think that means it's all bad. But we don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater... productivity tools exist because they DO help. We just need to adapt them to work with our wiring.  I went through this exact thing when I wa...

What goes together like the last dregs of summer and poolside reading? Fall back-to-business rush + burnout.  It's that time of year where everyone is looking forward, closing out summer mentally and putting the pedal to the metal before we hit the holidays.  Which also means, me and my 1:1 clients are revisiting burnout basics. Subscribe to keep reading this post newsletter-pos...

I always get sentimental this time of year. Maybe it's all those years of back-to-school conditioning or maybe it's because my birthday sits right at the threshold between summer's permission and fall's structure...  Either way, August often ends up feeling more like a fresh start than January ever does. I'll be turning 36 at the end of the week and I've been reflecting more about what I've bee...