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Brain Food Archive

Below find past editions of Brain Food. If you’re not currently subscribed, join us.

(I’m slowly adding to this list. With over 500, it will take a while!)

2023

508: Leverage Time

507: Every Day

506: Momentum creates Motivation

505: Small Habits

2022

504: Unexpected Kindness

503: Setting and Achieving Goals

502: The Focus to Say No

501: Figuring it Out

500: Our 500th edition of Brain Food

499: Subtraction

498: The Stonecutter’s Credo

497: Seizing The Moment

496: The Mountain

495: Simple Acts

494: All in. All the time.

493: Next Step Focus

492: What Makes Us Happy

491: Unthinkingable

490: Avoiding Bad Behavior

489: Sophisticated Simplicity

488: Nowhere to Hide

487: Desire into Default

486: Towards or Away

485: Appearing Foolish

484: Signal in the Noise

483: Consistency

482: Ignoring the Irrelevant

481: Good Advice

480: Personal Philosophy

479: Time Horizon

478: No Points for Difficult

477: Hierarchy

476: Tomorrow Self

475: The Asymmetry of Focus

474: Negotiating with Yourself

473: Boredom & Impatience

472: Heroic Math

471: Longevity

470: The Second Mindset

469: The 24 Hour Rule

468: Today, Not Tomorrow

467: The Weight of Short Term Actions

466: Simple Ideas. Parabolic Results.

465: Starting Position

464: Useful not Accurate

463: Tentative Uncertainty

462: Positive Asymmetry

461: Active Patience

460: Designing Defaults

459: Uncommon Consistency

458: Small Steps

457: Passive Stability

456: Playing on Hard Mode

455: The Passions

454: Quitting to Win

453: Less But Better

2021

  • 452: Run Your Own Race
  • 451 The Path of Least Resistance
  • 450 Patterns of Behavior
  • 449: Does it work?
  • 448: Faulty Narratives
  • 447: Expectations
  • 446: Avoiding Stupidity
  • 445: A Method of Learning
  • 444: Avoiding Problems
  • 443: Doing the Work
  • 442: What They Never Taught You about Surprise
  • 441: What You Put In
  • 440: Your Scoreboard
  • 439: Cultivating People
  • 438: First Step Courage

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