Category: Work
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How to Work from Home and Supervise Home-Based Learning (Part 1) — The Gottman Relationship Blog – The Gottman Institute
Balancing working and schooling from home is challenging. Here are some tips for doing both well. The post How to Work from Home and Supervise Home-Based Learning (Part 1) appeared first on The Gottman Institute. How to Work from Home and Supervise Home-Based Learning (Part 1) — The Gottman Relationship Blog – The Gottman Institute Today…
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Top five books I’ve read
Books, check’em out… Like most teenaged boys I loathed reading the books that were assigned in school. With wrestling and Boy Scouts (and friends) as my main focuses, I didn’t have the time…or motivation. Cliff Notes were a fantastic short cut for a while, but the teachers escalated the bare minimum arms race and developed…
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Camp Conestoga
Another quick post while I work on something longer. Beginning July 1, I was able to take ten days off of work and spent eight of those nights sleeping outside. The adventure began with technically camping in our good friends’ backyard as we visited their beautifully remodeled mid-1800s farmhouse. The end was actually camping with…
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The Definition of Success Is Autonomy — Ryan Holiday
None of us truly control our own destiny. Fate has too much power over us puny humans. Still, we often suspect that were we just a little richer, just a little more famous, if we were in charge and got the success we craved, then we’d finally have some say over the direction of our… The…
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We Are Who We Honor — Daily Stoic
It was Malraux who said that we judge a society by the monuments it puts up. So imagine a society that puts up statues to tyrants, to someone who nearly succedded in tearing an empire apart, who did horrible, innexplicably cruel things… We Are Who We Honor — DailyStoic.com I’ve wrestled for several years on…
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How the Generational Cycle of History Explains Our Current Crisis — The Art of Manliness
With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to help our newer readers discover some of the best, evergreen gems from the past. This article was originally published in July 2012. As is the generation of leaves, so to of men: At one time the wind shakes… How…
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On Running an Office Like a Factory – Cal Newport
I was recently browsing the archives of the MIT Sloan Management Review (as one does), when I came across a fascinating article from the Fall 2018 issue titled “Breaking Logjams in Knowledge Work.” The piece starts with a blunt observation: “If you work in an organization, you know what it’s like to have too much… On…
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So much pain.
My dad was a police officer for 30 years. He looks happy in the above photo, doesn’t he? I remember him coming home and telling stories of his day with joy. At some point though, he was less than happy and at some point, I vividly remember seeing the book Why Cops Hate You on…
Patience and Humility 