Thoughts Brewing Blog

You probably want to exercise more but don’t have time to figure out what to do (ironically).

Trust. It is something that comes up when talking about people’s character. It is something most of us want (and/or even expect) in our relationships - family, friends, colleagues. It is something that, when broken, can be difficult, if not impossible, to repair. In ...

You know what it is. When you pick up your phone to do something and, somehow, you end up on your social media app of choice and start the scroll. The DOOM SCROLL. 4 hours later you are still scrolling and don’t know where the time went. (Ok maybe not 4 hours… but...

Silos are a problem. Not the kind you see on farms (well, I guess those can have issues of their own, but that’s not what I’m talking about). I’m talking about issues with what McKeown calls linear knowledge in Effortless.

AI tools can do much more than just create text. Tools like DALL-E or stable diffusion can create high-quality images from basic text prompts.

One of the great things about AI tools like ChatGPT is its ability to scan large amounts of information quickly.  Way faster than we could.

Automate. Automate. Automate. I keep coming across this theme more and more frequently, and I have been working to embrace it wherever I can.

I honestly don’t know what led me down this path the other day…

I have mentioned this in a few posts, but resting and pacing myself are both things I struggle with. So, reading McKeown’s suggestions in Effortless about establishing lower and upper bounds really spoke to me, “Never less than X, never more than Y.”

Fail Faster. I first encountered this line of thinking when I was working for a non-profit association. Our CEO introduced it to the staff and wanted us to approach all our projects with this concept in mind. At the time, my perfectionist self balked at the idea. Now,...