Thoughts Brewing Blog

Explaining stoicism is WAY outside the scope of this post.  You can use ChatGPT to tell you all about it, though.  So this is kind of two tips in one.

Supercharge Your Thinking 

I believe I have already mentioned this, but Brian Tracy’s Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life is full of amazing tidbits of advice.  One of the things he talks about in Chapter 1o: Supercharge Your Thinking is becoming an inverse paranoid - “A...

Project management is useful to, well, manage your projects.  They did a good job when naming it…

Similar to the Word Treasure series I wrote a few weeks ago, in which I shared my list of unknown (to me) words that I come across while reading, I am going to share a short series of quotes that I have kept track of over the years. These are quotes that I have found to be...

If done right, team-building events can boost morale and collaboration among team members.  

The Timeless Wisdom of Brian Tracy

I will start by saying that I am well aware that the book Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life by Brian Tracy is old. However, it is amazing, and everyone should read it. And I mean, go out and find a copy of it now and read it.

A lot more people have switched to remote work over the last few years.

The last Book Brew post discussed beginning with the end in mind and mentioned how we can fall victim to “climbing the ladder of success only to discover it’s leaning against the wrong wall.” Another piece of this is falling into what Covey calls the “Activity Trap.” He...

AI tools are progressing quickly.  A good example of what’s coming is Google’s Illuminate.  Its focus is turning academic papers into AI-generated audio discussions.

The idea seems paradoxical to start at the end, but it is a recommendation I keep seeing over and over again—so it's kinda hard not to listen to it.