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How I learned to think – Part 1
Blaise Pascal – ‘I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.’ My high school physics teacher taught me the pursuit, and difficulty, of simplicity. If you handed in homework with lazy and inelegant workings, you got a comically extended ‘long’ stretched across the offending part of…
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The Basics
I have a book recommendation: ‘What I know about running coffee shops’ by Colin Harmon. Required reading for the future coffee shop owner. But, read it with a generalist view and it is one of the best business books out there. In it are the most concise and practical explanations of Scale, Customer Value Propositions,…
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Net Zero Things
A guide to practical minimalism. Here is my contribution to the #lifehack space: For every new thing you buy, get rid of at least one thing you own. Values don’t need to offset. I bought a bicycle so I got rid of some old socks – it’s the practice that counts. As long as you’re…
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Why
Thanks for taking the time to read through the short thoughts I’ve posted. Here’s some context as to how and why I wrote them. You don’t know what you understand until you have to explain it to someone else. To Feynman-method myself, I decided to write these thoughts down and publish them. There are generally…
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Thinking
Practice it. Away from screens. – How? Cycling, walking, running, swimming, meditating, cooking, writing.
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Simplicity
“Make things as simple as they can be, but no simpler.” – Einstein – If you can’t explain what you do in two sentences, you don’t know what you do. If you can’t define a problem in two sentences, you don’t know what the problem is.
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Reinforcement
Praise publicly and loudly. Criticise in private and quietly. Say thank you and well done.
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Selling
Is simple, but not easy. – Understand what problem someone wants to solve, give them something to solve that problem.
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Lukas Grech 