In 2009, Blackberry owned 50 percent of the smartphone market. By 2014, however, with the iPhone’s rise in popularity, that number tumbled to 1 percent. Part of Blackberry’s decline was founder Mike Lazaridis’s belief that the world would never want more from a mobile phone than to make calls and send and receive emails. Put […]
Think Like a C Student (But Only Sometimes)
Imagine you’re back in high school. You wrote an assignment a week earlier, and you’re nervously awaiting your final grade. Your teacher returns your paper, and that’s when you see your grade for the first time: “Nice work. B.” “Damn,” you mutter aloud, comparing yourself to your straight-A friend, “I was so close to getting […]
How to Write a Book Summary (Step-by-Step)
In 2015, I wrote a book summary for The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Distilling the book’s key ideas helped me remember what I read. Plus, readers got a lot from it, so I continued with other nonfiction books I read. Since then, I’ve written 100+ book summaries for the best non-fiction books of […]
Notion OKRs: How I Set and Achieve My Biggest, Most Ambitious Goals
One problem I’ve always had with traditional goal setting is not knowing what I want so far in the future. In Q1 2020, for instance, I started a weekly newsletter called Words Into Works. But after 52 consecutive weeks, I paused it to prioritize a more important goal (launching Getting Things Done with Notion). This […]
How to Read More: A Busy Person’s Guide
There’s a lot of advice online on how to read more. And a lot of it is helpful—especially if you’re a beginner looking to read more often and more widely. But a lot of the advice also ignores busy professionals trying to balance life and work. That’s what I’m going to cover today. In this […]
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