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Dec 24, 2020
41 · ALGO — Lessons from Teaching, Live Streaming, Publishing, and 3 Years of Podcasting

Harvard's Jose Luis García del Castillo and host Nono Martínez Alonso on teaching, live streaming, the guilt of postponing things, the difficulties of delegating tasks and micro-management, the fear of shipping creative work, and lessons learned after forty podcast episodes.

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Dec 10, 2020
40 · Music or Podcasts? Commuting, Meditative Walks, and Solitude

During your commute, do you listen to music or podcasts?

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The Luxury of Simplicity

Back in August 2018, Panagiotis Michalatos and I sat down at the back porch of his house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to chat for a couple of hours. Pan, as…

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The Manual and the Guide

There's a subtle difference between the manual and the guide. The manual is meant to tell you how to use and assemble your new gadget—the very function of…

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Who Cares About Your Workflow?

I like to start working in the early morning with the minimum amount of items on my desk. A MacBook Air, a 4K monitor, and a wireless mouse. No matter how…

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What's the Time?

By about 3000 BC the Egyptians had already developed a calendar, and a water clock, the sand clock predecesor, was already in use around 1500 BC, probably to…

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Would the Amish Ride Electric Scooters?

Over the last months, I've been questioning why the streets of my hometown are flooded with electric scooters, at the same time that I keep asking myself…

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The Growth Mindset: How to Measure Your Own Success

Don't do it, measure progress instead. Measure where you were yesterday, where you were seven days ago, and where you were a month ago. Write down all of the…

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