Herbert Lui
Waking up from the trance of avoidance
The intermediate hump
Incline to the improbable
A technician’s expertise
Scheduling, payoff, and clarity
Bloat
Five conditions that amplify your best efforts
Rethink your product’s price, packaging, and promotion
The prolific Iceman
Take more photos
Reflecting on creative consistency
Confidence is high
The courage to miss out
Ira Glass, and the gap
Vinyl isn’t just about the sound
Let the small stuff slide
Why I’m prolific, and why you should be too
A house with its own website
Obviously AI, totally acceptable
A restaurant’s evolution
Maladaptive frugality, at Hacker News
Just another name on another list
Be mindful of renting capabilities
Adventure starts when everything goes wrong
Thanks for reaching out
Please prompt me, and allow me to prompt you
Resumption matters, now more than ever
Maladaptive frugality
A beginner’s guide to asking
Speaking with i-Think
Sometimes, it goes before it works
Always ask
Speak directly with your customers
Your friends, your customers, and your work
Scrap paper is powerful because it’s friendly
Take yourself seriously
Clarify your definition of success
On AI music and writing
Easier done than said
Which story will you choose?
The ROI of a recovery attempt
The community circuit
Difficulty is a positive early signal
Talk to your competitors
Creative enfeeblement
Talking about your goals is a tradeoff
Introducing the Consistency Journal
Five random posts
Nonsense
Introducing random posts
Second nature
Be curious, not judgmental
Thank you, Faiz
What’s obvious to you might not be to me
Add purpose to the payoff
A final goodbye
Bias for continuity
Five minutes ahead
Shaping a solution
In praise of the quiet celebration
Recoverability is more useful than reversibility
Learning Chinese again
Shape your projects and tasks
Learning fast vs. learning with your heart
Define your creative surfaces
Keep interruptions brief
Release and consumption cycles
Early and late are relative
No more big rings
Pokémon published Red and Green before making them perfect
Pokémon, collection, and connection
Change your hands, change your psychology
The six lean, long, years of starting up Pokémon
Did you know many successful artists worked day jobs?
Early experiences with Pokémon
Evolve or die
Small talk sets up big ideas
Everything is impermanent
Fun first
The first Pokémon
How to find people who link to your blog
Your intentions need baking and cleaning
A masseur’s wisdom
Turn a creative fever into lasting inspiration
Social media just doesn’t hit like a website does
This, too, can be meditation
The sauce and the main course
You can opt out of incentives
Practicing in public
Five lessons for whispering into the Hacker News front page
Anybody else can do it…
People-shaped problems
Trust yourself
The return of slow
Bet on each other
Happy year of the fire horse
Sketch, don’t paint
Nostalgia and withered technology
10 years of stories
I will speak at CreativeMornings
An idea not pursued
Write to remember your good ideas
Trunk Sale Tour 26
Is the business on your side?
Launch first, improve later
Recoverable and irrecoverable decisions
Going through the motions
It’s also your idea now
Balance
Foundational content
The night I became an entrepreneur
The 48 Laws of Power started with powerlessness
Escape velocity
The hungry ghost’s favorite ingredient was ambition
A return to my business writing practice
Craft your little empire
A matter of size
Celebrating the debut of Home Room
Evening constitutional
Why people still ask for directions
Becoming more mindful of overcorrecting
Manage your energy, not just your time
Five
Some teachers show you what to avoid
5 ideas I will be practicing this year
Five books I’ve enjoyed recently
How I stretch my attention span
Three early career plays
You can either learn or be judgmental
Publish once before making it perfect the second time
Two lessons I learned writing something heavy
Reflecting on my failure to write a NYT bestselling book
Remember the idea now, not later
The power of proof assets
When you delay a task, your mind makes it more intimidating
Good things happen when you can be flexible with timing
New year, New Material
Miracleless growth
Make your dream something you can’t fail at
Why not today?
The scribbled sheet of paper that changed fashion
A journal’s purpose
Stop exploiting yourself
It’s always worth spending time up front to make the process smoother
Third places on Christmas
The asymptotic queue
Whatever you struggle with is a great place to start writing
Maybe promotion isn’t about making money, it’s about helping your work find other people
Finding an answer to a question nobody else could answer
Why Allen Iverson stopped dunking
The point of writing every day isn’t to write every day
When is a best effort enough?
Participation is more important than the outcome
The joys of blooming “late”
Thank you, Keane
Two articles I wrote very early in my career
Fans will always be fans, even if they come and go
Imagining the future of The Path, after Cumberland Terrace
Figure out what’s working, and do more of it
Learn about yourself by making something you’ll throw out right away
Simple questions to sense content marketing ROI
While the image of success is loud, real success is quiet
Sometimes, the quiet achievements are the most important ones
Marketing readiness
Writing tired
Streaks are fragile, practices are anti fragile
Two ways to increase the value of your work
The writer’s room inside your mind
Cultivating a life with less deadline pressure
Create full-time job opportunities by adding value as a freelancer
Notes from a season of movement
Meditating through self-forgiveness, frustration, and overwhelm
Imagined realities can be shaped
Being frugal makes entrepreneurs less fragile
When you follow your inclinations, you create a special type of luck
Don’t make maintenance a last resort
Good judgment does not mean being judgmental
To get back into reading, choose a book just for fun
Strong defense sets up strong offense
If you’re exploring your career, keep more options open
Share your reminders to yourself
Maybe it’s not you
If you’re unsure what to do, take any action
The first step to get out of a hole is to stop digging
Defense to offense
Are you being rude to yourself?
How to compete with geniuses
Five tactics to scan for career opportunities
Survival of the most flexible
Clarify what your career currently supports
Finding help is a skill worth mastering
The Middle Way
Wisdom starts with walking
Lest we forget
Good project management is about getting ahead of opportunities and problems
Your routines are your opinions
Fill in stories with realistic details
Bias for novelty
If they can do it, so can you
The right and wrong times to burn the boats
Document whatever’s in front of you
Be mindful of what you’re getting good at
Three particularly resonant posts
In praise of the early morning flight
Make a list of pains you prevented
AI is useful because you can blame it
Three lessons from giving dishes an extra rinse at dim sum
Respond to mistakes with guilt and gratitude
Aerial roots can strengthen a tree’s foundation and absorb water and nutrients
Impress as few people as possible
You can always choose to be calm
Practice doesn’t make perfect, practice is permanent
The schedule is your project’s most important feature
Every day is an opportunity to improve a skill and create momentum
Make a list of things you want to do while you wait
Don’t let a misunderstanding distract you from your goals
When you do interesting things, you learn to make boring things interesting
If optimizing for commitment doesn’t work for you, optimize for balance instead
Treat your morning ritual like an opening chess move
Even if the doctor recommends doing nothing, the visit will be worth it
Create space for the things you want, so they can find you
What tomorrow doesn’t tell you
A dollar is a dollar, except when it’s not
It was supposed to rain
Giving thanks
You will have something worth saying after you write, not before
Three things writing every day has refined for me
Only boring people get bored
Craft, not fame, makes your story worth telling
Me and you
Three moments from writing this week
Stop chasing positive outcomes, allow them to find you with an indirect approach
Pineapples, pizza, and possibility
Collect underpants → ??? → Profit: A guide to filling in the question marks in your plans
Do things that make you feel proud of yourself
Three useful pieces of advice for public speaking
Music is a buoy in the seas of time and space
Don’t just support it, enjoy it
The paranoid only survive if it doesn’t kill them first
Make your phone dumber so it’s less addictive
Robert Frost on uniting your hobby and vocation