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Live Like You Will Need to Adapt

Jul 3, 2026 Growth Mindset

After writing my last piece I got to thinking a bunch about the problem of how to live successfully when you don’t really know what is going to happen. Which, to be clear, is always. It’s clear to me that change is accelerating and thus most of us will be navigating what is a more turbulent world over the coming decades. We aren’t built for that, evolution did not select for brains that handle a rapidly changing society because no such thing ever existed. ...

Easy Starter on First Principles Thinking

Jun 26, 2026 Growth Mindset

First principles thinking has been a key part of my approach to life since my early twenties. And when I look back at choices I’ve made and said ‘oops, that wasn’t a good call’ I can almost always point to a choice I made without applying first principles thinking. So I try to use it more often than not for any significant decision, even less consequential ones (like, should I buy the television on Amazon Prime Day!) I didn’t buy it, btw. ...

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Migrating nicknow.net from WordPress to Hugo and Cloudflare Pages

Jun 18, 2026 Technology

Nic Disclosure: Claude wrote everything here (other than this disclosure). I only provided the cover image from Pexels and I fixed the phrase ‘Last week’ to ‘This week’ in the first paragraph. I don’t necessarily share all the views expressed here, my Wordpress experience was very positive and I think it’s a great platform - I just wanted to eliminate the hosting bill and some the headaches which weren’t worth it for such a simple site. ...

Keys to a Successful Life: Groundings, Choices, Purpose

Jun 16, 2026 Growth Mindset

I wrote a piece back at the start of the year called 10 Choices For a Better Future that was largely focused on behaviorally based choices, I now realize. Just to be clear there is no big plan here I just write this stuff when I’m thinking about it and have time and have some motivation. And in discussing this with someone I occasionally mentor recently (okay a couple months ago) I realized that while that list was good from a choosing how to behave daily standpoint (which is what I writing it for) it didn’t really provide any thinking how to make choices about your life, and that’s a problem because you could apply everything in that piece and still make stupid unguided choices. ...

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