Pat Walls List of Projects and Outcomes
Pat Walls compiled a list of his projects and their outcomes, serving as a great reminder of lessons learned and what works and what doesn’t.…
Category: Motivation
Sometimes we need a little motivation, and these are great reminders of how to find it.
The Learning Pyramid
Learning can take many forms, and some are better than others:
• Lecture: 5% (Average Retention Rate)
• Reading: 10%
• Audio/Visual: 20%
• Demonstration: 30%
• Group Discussion: 50%…
Q2 is near
Whatever your 2024 goal is, you have 9 more months to complete it
❌ Q1: January, February, March
✅ Q2: April, May, June
✅ Q3: July, August, September
✅ Q4: …
Why learn calculus?
Subjects like calculus were hard to get excited about because they never told you WHY this was helpful.
If you give zero evidence why something is useful, it’s hard to …
Noah Kagan’s Yearly Goal Chart
This is a cool Yearly Goal Chart @noahkagan makes every year, divided into 4 parts:
– Work
– Health
– Personal
– Travel
Each section limited to 4 goals or …
Guard your brain when writing.
I have to “guard my brain” when trying to do work. This usually involves:
– Putting my phone upside down or far away.
– Turning on a Chrome website blocker …
The 4% Rule
“The 4% Rule is a “back-of-the-envelope” calculation for how much money you’d need to retire for approximately 25 years.
While people can poke holes in generalized rules like this, it’s …
FAT-FIRE
There’s an amazing subreddit called /r/fatFIRE which is full of people trying to be F.I.R.E. (Financially Independent Retire Early)
“FAT”-FIRE means they want to retire, but in luxury style.
So …
Internet Users Over Time
In 2003 (20 years ago) around 700 million people were on the internet. Now it’s nearly the entire planet.
Many people in 2003 felt they missed their “big shot” after …
Best party crashing advice
In college I’d crash parties to network with people way above me. The ultimate way I found to crash any high end party was to bring:
– Flask with wine…
CEO of NetFlix naming strategy
The CEO of NetFlix Marc Randolph recently shared how they picked the name “NetFlix” from a list of names based on if the domain was available.
They actually didn’t like …