Note: This guide has been revised and updated for 2019. I was walking around a shopping center in early November and there were already Christmas decorations hung up everywhere. Thanksgiving seems like it has almost been completely subsumed by the winter...
This morning I was at the gym, going through my routine. At one point I look up and see a mildly overweight woman with a personal trainer. The trainer has walked the woman over to a leg extension machine. Before she gets on, he got a disinfecting wipe and cleaned off...
I distinctly remember the first time I was hired by a new client. I was nervous as hell. To be perfectly honest, I felt like a fraud. I had done work for new clients before while I was an associate at a firm, but this was this first time someone had specifically...
“Alright time to do some work!” Email ping Twitter tweeting Slack pop-pop Phone rings (“I still have one of those?!”) Someone knocks on the door You’ve got those extra files on your desk Looks at the 14 tabs open in Chrome What’s...
As I noted a couple of days ago, Forbes recently published a ridiculous listicle of tasks to complete every morning. Do this, do that, run down the checklist. I ridiculed it because (a) it was drop-dead obvious things to do that people should have incorporated into...
