Duane Rollins

If you want to improve your decision making, here’s a simple trick: remove the option of a bad decision beforehand. I call this making a pre-decision. A pre-decisions is designing the environment for decision making before an actual decision needs to be made. It is a way to take

Every Friday, I share other great content (with some added context) to dive into over the weekend. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carlton Banks Was More Than Just a Dance [https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/9/10/21430683/carlton-banks-fresh-prince-of-bel-air-anniversary] Will Smith’s TV cousin is best remembered for his bowtie and love of

Writing is the easy part. Thinking is much harder. If you want to become a better writer, you first must become a better thinker. Writing is a form of expression that helps an individual communicate their way of thinking to a broader audience. Also, writing is important because it scales

> “I made it my business to make my own business/ to create my own lane that the game hasn’t witnessed” - 🔥 Mickey Factz 🔥 Mickey Factz, known mostly for battle rap [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV-4fLpP3xQ], stopped by the Earn Your Leisure [https://www.earnyourleisure.com/] podcast

There has been a lot of talk about the capitalistic system these days so I wanted to do a deeper dive into the topic. Here’s the simple definition of capitalism: it is an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” - E.E. Cummings Fight to be you today. It’s the only battle that matters.

Delayed But Not Forgotten

From Jeff Bezos’ Letter to 1997 Shareholders on irreversible (Type 1) vs. reversible (Type 2) decision making: > Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible – one-way doors – and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation. If you walk through and don’t

What would you do with a trillion dollars?

Starting now is the greatest gift you can give to yourself. Let me illustrate with a slightly modified example from Joel Greenblat’’s book, Common Sense: The Investor's Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth [https://amzn.to/31KnfFu]. Imagine seeing a chart with numbers for “Person A” and