Useful insights at random intervals
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Be prepared, not scripted
It's almost impossible to bring your natural self to a presentation environment when you read from a script, which means it's almost impossible to create the environment for your audience to feel ready to buy from you.
Step one for writing a book
If you're writing a book this summer you may find this useful.
Before you write your book
If you want to give your idea a legacy, you should sit down write a book about it.
Everything begins with awareness
I was listening to a podcast recently with a leadership expert who said right at the beginning of the interview "Leadership is about making the people around you better".
Energy trumps everything
31 days ago, I declared an experiment; thanks to the suggestion of my friend Richard Brisebois, I would write an essay every day for the month of October.
Are you using technology (or is technology using you)?
If you'd told someone from 1980 what technology would be capable of 40 years hence, they'd have been absolutely blown away by what they learned.
Are you adding or multiplying your way to progress?
Forgive me, number-phobes, today I'm going to use maths as a metaphor.
I'm not over Zoom
I hate to sound like a hipster, but I was using Zoom long before it was cool.
The best piece of career/relationship/life advice I've ever received
99% commitment is really hard.
The constant tension between your two selves
The experiencing self is the one that has to actually show up and do the work.