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This entry is part 20 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy

This entry is part 20 of 26 in the series Timeboxing TrilogyFile this one under “autobiographical advice”…. But I guess that file would include all advice ever given in the history of mankind. All philosophy is (auto)biography…I think Steve Chandler or someone said that once. So let me paint a little picture for you. The…

How To Get Nothing Done: The Art and Science of Wresting Defeat From the Jaws of Victory

This entry is part 22 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy

This entry is part 22 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy Don’t accept anything but the best. Don’t break it down into small pieces. Don’t timebox. Do everything in big time increments. Real work happens in big time increments. Tire yourself out. Don’t stop until you’re bored and hate yourself. Don’t take any shortcuts…

How to Make Miracles Happen and Get Called a Genetically Gifted Genius

This entry is part 23 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Wide Standards

This entry is part 23 of 26 in the series Timeboxing TrilogyThis entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Wide Standards Do what you can (importantly, don’t do what you can’t do…this seems like an obvious [indeed, almost tautological] statement, but you’d be amazed how many people try to force it) Do the…

Remember That You Are, Were and Will Always Be Human: Infinite in Possibility and Finite in Action

This entry is part 12 of 17 in the series The Art of War of Learning
This entry is part 24 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy

This entry is part 12 of 17 in the series The Art of War of LearningThis entry is part 24 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad” so said Prometheus, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Masque of Pandora” (1875). For AJATT purposes, I would change that to read:…