Thinking & Reasoning Featured Trading on ideas and discovering that I'm a Quality Architect Most people network by trading resources—money, influence, reputation, opportunity. I don’t. What I trade on is ideas.
Thinking & Reasoning If I'm going to spend the time doing it anyway, I might as well do it with impact Time passes at a constant rate for all of us, it's how we spend our time that makes a difference
Thinking & Reasoning Featured Mentoring isn't about giving advice, it's about creating motion Over the years, I’ve mentored students and professionals alike—and while I love it, I’ve hit a consistent hurdle: people don’t take action.
Thinking & Reasoning Finding time to refocus Finding Time to Refocus by Martin Adams0:00/3:241× "I don't have time to figure out the right thing, because I'm too busy doing the wrong thing". This was the effective message a colleague said to me a number of years ago when
Thinking & Reasoning Create a growth mindset programme for your team Growth Mindset Programme by Martin Adams0:00/6:521× Creating a Growth Mindset company isn't something that happens by chance. It comes from understanding what the differences are between having a fixed or growth mindset and then educating and mentoring your employees to adopt a growth mindset. This
Thinking & Reasoning Everything, all at once Why junior developers get overwhelmed with having to learn everything, all at once.
Thinking & Reasoning What you spend your time on What You Spend Your Time On by Martin Adams 010:00/2:481× I'm currently listening to the audiobook The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco. He talks about the idea that you can either choose to plan for your retirement through a life of servitude, or opting to
Thinking & Reasoning Ask big questions Ask Big Questions by Martin Adams0:00/3:091× I love asking big questions. The type of questions that make you think. The answer is often out of reach, but that’s okay. You don’t need to answer it. You just need to find the pieces of the puzzle
Thinking & Reasoning Systems over goals Systems over Goals by Martin Adams0:00/3:161× As I work on my Atomic Note-Taking book, I start to explore an example of how to process fleeting notes into literature notes. The book I’m using as a reference is Atomic Habits by James Clear. In this book,
Thinking & Reasoning Unlimited learning Unlimited Learning by Martin Adams0:00/3:301× While listening to the book The Unfair Advantage by Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba, they talk about why learning can be extremely difficult at a young age. They refer to it as you needing to be a Why learner. Most school kids
Thinking & Reasoning Hard work is the illusion Hard work is the illusion by Martin Adams0:00/2:521× “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”—Bill Gates This is a quote that has come into my awareness a couple of times recently. It made me
Thinking & Reasoning Discovering the missing piece to your why Having a why is vital to help you find the missing piece to the puzzle. Here's my revelation to showcase this.
Thinking & Reasoning Self awareness before knowledge People can read as many books as they like, but if they’re unable to read themselves they’ll never really learn a thing
Thinking & Reasoning Being a lifelong learner When we think of education, we think of school and college, accompanied by exams and assignments. But when we leave education, we don't think of ourselves 'in education' but in our career. We no longer take exams, and we no longer set ourselves assignments. We learn
Thinking & Reasoning Entropy is everywhere Entropy is often referred to the gradual decline from order into disorder. Take relationships for example. Leave them untouched, and over time they can start to erode.
Thinking & Reasoning The sasquatch and the architect Watch today's issue on YouTube I'm lying in bed. It's 5am. I don't want to get up. I promised myself I would get a headstart on the day for my own projects. But I lie there. I'm thinking of reasons
Thinking & Reasoning No more side quests Every couple of months I have a call with a couple of great entrepreneur friends where we dissect our current strategies. In the recent chat I shared my success at giving my first university seminar on the Zettelkasten note-taking method. I would then express how I wanted to finish
Thinking & Reasoning The Gravity of Influence: Recognizing Our Responsibilities in the Social Ecosystem Are you aware of the responsibilities that come with having a fanbase? Learn how to navigate the psychological weight of influence in the digital age and the power of persuasion in social media.
Thinking & Reasoning A better question to unlock a more ambitious strategy How you frame you goal can mean the difference between it being failure and achievable
Thinking & Reasoning What's the score you're keeping? I was watching this interview of Mark Rober on the Colin and Samir YouTube channel and he mentioned The Mario Effect. It's the concept that if you're faced with a learning challenge, if you lose points for each failure, you'll be less likely to
Thinking & Reasoning Is your fixed mindset preventing you from learning? Chances are that you are more of a growth mindset type of person. I doubt you'd be reading these articles about mindset and mastery if you weren't. But whether we like it or not, having a fixed or growth mindset isn't an absolute. We
Thinking & Reasoning Why we make promises we don't keep Ever meet someone who says they will do something, but they just don't follow through? Maybe you reading this are that someone. You know, where you'll say that you're starting a new project, but nothing happens and you've not done anything on
Thinking & Reasoning Embrace micro failures Our brain is an incredible machine that learns through failure. It's goal is to filter the signal from the noise. The signal being the actions that were deemed successful and the noise being the actions that were unsuccessful. This is how we learn. Whether it is learning to
Thinking & Reasoning The truth makes us lie At times we find ourselves pulling our hair out because someone will double down being wrong even in the face of irrefutable evidence. Why is this? More importantly, do we do this? In the book Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed, he explores why pilots are more open to admitting
Thinking & Reasoning Why is everyone else doing better than me? Why does no one else struggle like I do?
