How many daily tasks do you perform without thinking because they have always been done that way? If you work a job that you hate, what steps are you taking to change your daily habits so that you can become a new person, the type of person who has a fulfilling and joyful career? Most people spend time scrolling the web, looking for leads on some job where they meet 100% of the requirements.

From the moment my third grader (or was it fifth? I had the same teacher for both) read this book to me, my life completely changed. I think it’s the first 3 or so chapters, which set up the rest of the book so beautifully. The way in which stars are characterized, are personalized. The way that the generic theme of love vs. evil is told through the lens of the expansive realms of time and space.

I’ve been thinking deeply about the way in which I use digital and analog tools. Having recently picked up the Kindle Scribe, I’ve become interested (again) in the power of handwriting. One core realization of the digital/analog divide seems to be that: Digital tools are useful for efficiency; Analog tools (notebooks, pens, etc) are useful for thinking and focus So, a tool like Obsidian is useful in that it allows me to really plan my year, my quarterly goals, etc.

If you’re a skier, going down the hill, your eyes aren’t on the trees. Your eyes are on the snow. You want your eyes to look where you want to go, not at what you want to avoid. Perhaps another way of saying: keep your eyes on the prize.

How Board Games Condition Us I distinctly remember playing board games with my mom, dad, and sister when I was growing up. We kept them in this tiny, narrow crevice under my bunkbed, which usually meant we’d play the games in my bedroom. We played Monopoly, The Game of Life, Connect 4, and various other TV-themed games that I don’t recall now. We kept a number of these same games in whatever elementary or middle school classrooms I was a part of, too.