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Personal growth can be an overwhelming topic to tackle. There are so many books, frameworks, and voices offering advice that it’s hard to know where to begin. The most useful way that I’ve found to approach self-improvement is to step back and ask big questions.
This page is organized around some of those questions:
- How can I find purpose and meaning?
- How can I act with more intention?
- How can I stay motivated and productive?
- How can I learn and improve my skills?
- What practical tools and frameworks can help me improve?
- What should I read to better myself?
Each section below shows a collection of articles that approach these questions from various angles. They draw on lessons from software engineering, business, and my personal experiences.
How can I find purpose and meaning?
- Save the Performance for the Stage
- An Equation for a Successful Blog (And Life)
- Monk Week: Harnessing Solitude for Intentional Living
How can I act with more intention?
- Measure What Is in Your Control
- An Equation for a Successful Blog (And Life)
- Agile Development: A Pattern for Improvement
How can I stay motivated and productive?
See more articles...How can I learn and improve skills?
- AI Strategies to Safeguard Personal Development
- How to Improve Anything: Building a World-Class Feedback Loop
- Credentials, Artifacts, and Competence
What practical tools and frameworks can help me improve?
- How to Improve Anything: Building a World-Class Feedback Loop
- What I Learned From Ray Dalio and Hiring New People
- Agile Development: A Pattern for Improvement
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AI Strategies to Safeguard Personal Development
AI can make you far more productive, but it can also cause valuable skills to atrophy. Learn how to use AI to boost productivity without losing skills by following simple, practical principles.
Measure What Is in Your Control
Stephen King has written dozens of bestsellers, sold over 350 million books, and built a net worth north of $500 million. While impressive, these are metrics he pays little attention to. As an author, there is only one metric that King pays attention to—words written per day.
The Ninety-Ninety Rule and Overcoming Unplanned Work
If you don’t account for inevitable unplanned work ahead of time, you will have to find more time by dropping something else, which causes pain for all parties involved.
Agile Development: A Pattern for Improvement
Make a plan to get a little closer to where you want to be. Act on that plan. Measure the outcome of your actions. Then, use what you have learned to adjust your vision for the future and plan your next move.