Herbert Lui
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