Perceived vs Actual Freedom The problem we’re all wresting with can be stated in many ways… “I’m too busy” “I don’t have time” “I’m making commitments I can’t keep” …but another way to think about the problem may be the difference between our “perceived” freedom and our actual freedom. That is, we perceive—we believe—that we […]
Doing Less
Jeff Atwood
Like a crazy hoarder, I mistake the root cause of my growing mountain of incomplete work. The hoarder thinks he has a storage problem when he really has a ‘throwing things away problem’. I say I am ‘time poor’ as if the problem is that poor me is given only 24 hours in a day. […]
Decisions
Reminded today that deciding to do one thing is deciding not to do something else–that the root of the word “decide” is to “cut off”. As a small business, the opportunity costs for even your best decisions are huge: the best gig you’ve got is another customer you didn’t meet. The opportunity costs for bad […]