Herbert Lui

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