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If you don’t manage your intake of Trump news, it’s going to hurt your mental health. Just tune most of it out.
Let me tell you a small yet inconvenient secret, one that most consultants learn too late, after years of mistaking busyness for effectiveness.
Your ego is your biggest liability. Are you ready to kill it?
You see, mastering SQL, financial modeling, and the endless parade of Excel gymnastics is easy. Step-by-step, module by module, tutorial by tutorial: anyone with a Wi-Fi connection and mild caffeine addiction can do it.
But there is no Coursera course for making clients remember your name ten …
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You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
Many people chase wealth, status, and achievement because progress is easy to measure.
They fail to realize that the gains that count the most are the hardest to count.
Real growth is building character—striving to improve in generosity, integrity, humility, fairness, courage, or wisdom.
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Anyone else worried about what Substack is turning into? My understanding was that it used to be a place for nerds like you and me to try our hand at writing. But it seems that within five minutes from now it’s going to be essentially another crowd funding hub for videos and audio which I fear will drown out the written word.
So well written. I laughed out loud more than once!! Thank you, M. E., for introducing me to Tom and, Tom, for reminding me of the genius of Bill Bryson. Looking forward to diving into both. :)