Before the Covid-19 Pandemic, Southwest Airlines was profitable for forty-seven consecutive years. A rare and astonishing feat, given the volatility of the aviation industry. According to the late Herb Kelleher, the company’s former CEO, one of the many reasons for Southwest’s success was its deliberateness in making strategic trade-offs. Greg Mckeown summarizes Kelleher’s approach in […]
My Notion Note-Taking System (Or How I Read Online)
I love learning from online content as much as I do from books. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an article, an email newsletter, or a tweetstorm—if there’s a lesson I can gleam related to an area of interest, I want to write it down. Up until recently, I didn’t have a good system for reading […]
7 Time Management Lessons from The World’s Highest-Paid Copywriter
Dan Kennedy is the highest-paid copywriter working today. In a given year, Dan writes newsletters, books, home study courses, and more—all while running two seven-figure coaching and consulting businesses (and competing in several harness races per week). While it’s easy to assume Dan’s ability to achieve at a high level is due to automating and […]
The Focusing Question: How to Find Your ONE Thing
Andrew Carnegie, the man often referred to as the greatest industrialist of the 20th century, was standing in front of a room of wide-eyed students at Curry Commercial College. [1] “‘Don’t put all your eggs in one basket,’ is wrong” he counseled. “I tell you ‘put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch […]