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The portals of learning

I recently sat down with an entrepreneur who is nine months into building his business. He described the...

Nobody is coming to save you

There’s a social media account I like called Nature is Metal. Their content is not for the faint...

Why Snafu?

I stumbled into the phrase SNAFU by accident. Last winter, my father and a close friend both asked...

Is this safe to try?

I’m frequently doing ridiculous self-experiments like eating just three ingredients for six months, sitting in freezing cold water,...

How much evidence do you need to know that something is true?

When I first walked into a gymnastics gym, I had zero experience with gymnastics or acrobatics of any...

How to run a self-experiment

I first heard the term “self-experimentation” as an undergraduate in behavioral psychology My professor gave a few examples...

On heartbreak, love and cognitive dissonance

Three days before the election, I went on a first date. I go on a lot of first...

How to fast

A friend of mine is embarking on his first 4-day water only fast, so I sent him a...

Know the difference between practice and performance

As an undergraduate, I studied learning. Specifically, I became obsessed with the impact of variable practice on motor...

Just do something

I hit a point – ten meetings or a hundred email into my day – where anything I...

This is how to change behavior

In the final weeks leading up to Responsive Conference, I hit an impasse. Since the beginning of 2024,...

Go deeper

Like most entrepreneurs I have the unfortunate habit of thinking that the grass is greener on the other...