In short, invest in this order: Quality of internet connection (line and router). Voice (Get a good microphone. He recommends this affordable headset or its… Read More »Matt Mullenweg’s hierarchy of improvements for video calls
You’ve started practising*, tried fifty, and hit some. Now keep going until you stick five in a row. Then ten. If you can do ten… Read More »Five in a row
In the light of Jonny Giger, why not take that discouragingly difficult thing you’re trying to learn* and commit to attempting it fifty times in… Read More »Try 50
It’s time to revisit the mother of skill – this time in the world of skateboarding. Jonny Giger is – according to some – the… Read More »Not easy but possible: Jonny Giger, repetition and persistence
Here’s a workflow for the next time you can’t face a mundane / boring / difficult task: Prepare your workspace / turn on your computer… Read More »While the tea is hot
On pushing out the boat [Start here] This is quite dense, but interesting. After summarising his argument so far, Aristotle suggests that the best way… Read More »Aristotle on virtue as a mean (4) – leaning out (or “Whose fool are you?”)
Many ways to fail [Start here] … Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited,… Read More »Aristotle on virtue as a mean (3) – the hard part
[Start here] … But not every action nor every passion admits of a mean; for some have names that already imply badness, e.g. spite, shamelessness,… Read More »Aristotle on virtue as a mean (2) – notable exceptions
… let us consider this, that it is the nature of such things to be destroyed by defect and excess, as we see in the… Read More »Aristotle on virtue as a mean (1)
The Search says, “There must be better.” Faster Higher Stronger Sweeter More Right Here says, “This, right here, is enough.” We need both.