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7 Social Expectations that Often Drain 90 Percent of Our Joy and Peace
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” — Bruce Lee The biggest and most draining disappointments in our daily liv…
Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being
"One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy."
How My Life Got Better When I Stopped Trying to Be Normal
For most of my life, I had a second full-time job. Nobody hired me for it. Nobody paid me. But it ate more hours than anything else I did. The job was pretending to be normal. I am…
How Human-Centered Technology Design Is Changing the Way People Store, Access, and Manage Digital Information
Not long ago, keeping track of digital files felt like a chore reserved for people who understood computers well. Today, technology is increasingly shaped around the way people act…
How video games can power up your parenting | Hannah Boquet (re-release)
Parenting an eye-rolling teenager glued to a gaming system is not a simple feat, but what if you could turn screen time into an opportunity for connection? Hannah Boquet shares how…
Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck
"What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on."
The Founder’s Tech Stack: 7 Best PDF Editor Alternatives to Adobe
We have all been there. You are 15 minutes away from a massive client meeting, and you just need to fix a single, glaring typo on page 4 of a critical contract. You open the file, …
What a Partition Action in California Teaches Co-Owners About Property Disputes
Three siblings inherit their mother’s duplex. One lives in it, one rents her half out, one moved to Portland and wants cash. Two years later, nobody is speaking through anything bu…
Denis Waitley
"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."
Aldous Huxley
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
Mother Teresa
"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."
Dale Carnegie
"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
Why Rural Hospitals Are Finally Ditching Film and Fax Machines
Three CDs, a courier, and a fax confirmation sheet. That was the actual workflow a critical access hospital in eastern Montana used last spring to get a chest CT into the hands of …
Why Your 3 P.M. Slump Isn’t a Coffee Problem (and What High Performers Reach For Instead)
Three o’clock hits and your brain goes soft. You reread the same email twice, open a tab you don’t need, and start negotiating with yourself about a fourth cup of coffee. I’ve watc…
How to Fix Damaged Gutters in Your Home
Gutters protect your home from water damage. When they work properly, they carry rainwater away from your roof and foundation, keeping everything dry. However, over time, gutters c…
Why Your Team’s “8 Hours” Is a Lie (And What That Costs You)
A guy I know runs a 14 person warehouse supply shop outside Columbus. He paid his crew for 38,400 hours last year. When he finally sat down with actual clock data instead of gut fe…
How Founders Handle a Legal Crisis Without Losing the Company
The worst call I ever took came on a Tuesday, about forty minutes before a product demo. A driver on the clock had put a company van into someone else’s rear bumper, and the other …
How to Improve Security in Doors and Windows
Keeping your home safe matters more than ever. With crime rates changing and home invasions becoming more common, many homeowners ask, “How can I keep my home secure?” Your doors a…
Stop Overthinking AI: How to Use AI in Business to Scale
Why You Have AI Entirely Wrong There is a massive misconception paralyzing business owners right now: the belief that implementing AI means you must fundamentally transform into a …
Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life
“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”