Book Review · Embarrassing Confessions of a Marine Lieutenant

Donny O’Malley and Brian Delrosario

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Train as we fight, but fight as we train?

Train hard, but make work easy – not the other way around. I was waiting outside a building today, and a I waited, I watched the NCO give a talk to her squad. She said, among other things, that we “train as we fight.” I don’t know what her talk was about. That was all……

Meta-post: a post about the previous posts so far

I finished reading Daniel Goleman’s Focus (2013) and I’ve started Contagious (2013) by J. Berger. It opens with praise, the first of which belongs to Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit (2014). This morning, I listened to Lewis Howes’s interview of author James Clear, interview titled, Success Habits: The Proven Way to Achieve……

Meta-systems and writing-poorly block

I heard Seth Godin say on writer’s block that, “Well, you don’t have writing-poorly block.” He suggested that if you run into a case of writer’s block, then you probably instead have a case of perfectionism – a case of waiting for the perfect something to appear before writing. Perfectionism means procrastination. Procrastination means failing……

Systemizing and writing

I’ve heard it said that if you can put a job in writing, then the job holder is replaceable. I don’t remember the context in which I heard it, but I think it pointed to some tasks as remaining either uniquely human (unable to delegate to a machine) or uniquely belonging to the leader (unable……

I'm just going to write something

Anything. I started this blog a year ago, then, like countless other bloggers, quit soon after. I found this app named Habits. It has room a feature to remind me daily at a specified time of a particular habit I’d like to adopt. A couple months ago, I installed it into my phone. Then, because……