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Round-up: Introverts in business
Is it really Friday again? This week I had a piece over at Fortune called “Can introverts succeed in business?” Using as a news hook Susan Cain’s bestselling book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, I argue that introverts do have certain in-demand business skills. Like coming up with ideas. And list… read more »
Fragmentation
Effective time-management means taking big goals, breaking them down into doable chunks, and then getting those tasks on the schedule.
But what defines a “doable chunk”?
I have been pondering this lately as I realize just how fragmented I have — through various choices — made my life. Because I work from home, I can eat lunch with m… read more »
Groundhog Day
In the 1993 film Groundhog Day, Phil, an unpleasant meteorologist, is condemned to relive the same day over and over again. The film asks the existential question of how one should live under those circumstances. It’s a good question. Here’s a related one: what would you choose to experience on a day or weekend that you would want to live through again and… read more »
Dollar signs and dreams
“It’s not dollar signs that are standing in the way of what you want in life”
That wonderful quote, courtesy of Adelaide Lancaster, has been staring out at me from the back cover of my book. It’s quite a thought. Indeed, I wish I’d thought of it, but I will take it as a blurb. For the past year, I’ve been pondering the question of what I’d do with all th… read more »
After debt freedom
When I started researching All the Money in the World, one of the first things I noticed about the shelves of personal finance books out there is that most seem concerned with getting out of debt. Dave Ramsey, in particular, has a whole program for doing a “debt snowball” to attack the smallest debts first, with “gazelle-like intensity.&… read more »
