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The most useful way that I’ve found to approach self-improvement is to step back and ask big questions like:
- How can I find purpose and meaning?
- How can I act with more intention?
- How can I stay motivated and productive?
- How can I learn and improve my skills?
- What practical tools and frameworks can help me improve?
- What should I read to better myself?
Each section below shows a collection of articles that approach these questions from various angles. They draw on lessons from software engineering, business, and my personal experiences.
How can I find purpose and meaning?
- How to Write (And Live) With More More Meaning
- Save the Performance for the Stage
- An Equation for a Successful Blog (And Life)
How can I act with more intention?
- Measure What Is in Your Control
- An Equation for a Successful Blog (And Life)
- Agile Development: A Pattern for Improvement
How can I stay motivated and productive?
- How to Overcome Perfectionism: Premature Optimization and Making Things Work
- Overcoming Frustration Distraction: Idea Incubation and Building Understanding
- Actionable Ways to Improve Focus
How can I learn and improve skills?
- The ROI of Self-Improvement
- How to Build and Showcase Your Skills Without a Degree
- AI Strategies to Safeguard Personal Development
What practical tools and frameworks can help me improve?
- How to Improve Anything: Building a World-Class Feedback Loop
- What I Learned From Ray Dalio and Hiring New People
- Agile Development: A Pattern for Improvement
What should I read to better myself?
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AI Strategies to Safeguard Personal Development
AI can make you far more productive, but it can also cause valuable skills to atrophy. By focusing on understanding, reinvesting time saved into deeper work, and collaborating with AI intelligently, you can improve skills while taking full advantage of AI’s power.
Measure What Is in Your Control
Stephen King has written dozens of bestsellers, sold over 350 million books, and built a net worth north of $500 million. While impressive, these are metrics he pays little attention to. As an author, there is only one metric that King pays attention to—words written per day.
The Ninety-Ninety Rule and Overcoming Unplanned Work
If you don’t account for inevitable unplanned work ahead of time, you will have to find more time by dropping something else, which causes pain for all parties involved.
Agile Development: A Pattern for Improvement
Stripped of business and coding jargon, Agile Development is an incredible framework for self-improvement. Make a plan to get a little closer to where you want to be. Act on that plan. Measure the outcome of your actions. Then, use what you have learned to adjust your vision for the future and plan your next move.