Extreme Common Sense

If we are aware of the really stupid things we do, we can do something else instead.

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

What Claude Can't See — and What to Do About It

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Something happened earlier this year that I've been thinking about ever since. I was working with claude.ai on an outreach letter — a ca...
Monday, September 4, 2023

Raising Your Standards

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Success is about staying consistent. Staying consistent is about standards. Poor standards limit success. If you raise your standards, you r...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Book Review: The Art of Learning

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When I mentioned to a friend that I was reading the book The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin, she asked why. "Is there anything you ...
Monday, May 30, 2016

Book Review - Deep Work by Cal Newport

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Whether you read David Allen on stress-free productivity, Brian Tracy on eating the biggest frog first, or almost anything in the domain of ...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

False Choices

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"Better 100 friends than 100 rubles."~ Russian proverb I don't always agree with proverbs, and I don't agree with this one...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

The School of Greatness

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For the past few years, Lewis Howes has been hosting a podcast he calls the School of Greatness. During a typical program he will interview ...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

Why I Subscribe to Podcasts

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As far as I see it, there are two types of people: those who think they can multitask and those who know better. With minor exceptions, mult...
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