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Bravery Is Not a Gene
Lessons From My First Card Show
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All the Diseases You Do Not Have
The Perfect Hobby
The Good Kind of Busy
Who Are We Doing It For?
Abandoning Opportunity for Growth
Writing to Your Politicians
If You Don’t Doubt Your Calling, Is It One?
Describing the Weather
No Edits
You Never Know Until You Know
Beautiful Side Effects
Sharing the Knowledge
A Back Against a Wall Is Always Straight
The Highs Are Relative
Ship Self-Contained Work
Sunglasses on Top
Walking Into a 3-Star Chef
When the Next Chapter Never Comes
Something Lost, Something Gained
Pecking at Justifications
When It’s About To Get Worse Before It’ll Get Better
The Clearest View of a Man Is From Below
When You’re in the Game, It’s Always Both a Good and Bad Time
The 2 Problems With Arbitrage
You Don’t Have To Contribute Immediately
Sometimes, the Obvious Answer Is Right
Being Grateful for Your Own Creations
A Moment To Talk About It
Getting the Last 10%
The Moment We Change Forever
Don’t Swing Your Sword in the Dark
Watching Clouds
Let Your Feedback Ripen
A Little Lion Can Still Roar Loudly
A Craving for the Analog
Start Another Timer
The Dose Depends on the Context
Will It Spark a Discussion?
The Around of Work Trips
Reflecting on the Big Moments
Roles Are Played by People, Not Actors
There’s a Difference Between Learning Who You Are and Becoming It
Irrational Choices
A Job Is Not Like School
The Most Important Conversations Never End
What Doctors Do
The Business Is the Business
You Are the Riverbed
When the Bug Finally Lands in the Water Glass
Make Your Mentors Ageless
The Competition Is Not That Serious
As Long as Someone Remembers Something
If You’re Not Willing To Make the Sacrifice
Presentation Skills
Yell Where It’s Inconsequential
Don’t Force the Money Too Early
The Joy of Seeing Old Friends
Find Your Good Sources of Dopamine
Belief vs. Trust
A Painting Only Lives When a Person Looks at It
When You Didn’t Get Picked
It’s Okay To Die With Zero
Where Does the Value Concentrate?
Too Busy To Ponder
When Does a Man Die?
Life Can Get Weird Fast
Walking on History
Don’t Overthink When There’s No Perfect Solution
Fair Prices
On Some Days, All You Can Do Is Rest
Enough Ideas To Destroy the Project
The Line to Unreasonable
You Need a Partner To Fight
Focusing on the Wrong Statistic
Will Your Escape Actually Lead Out?
Deal With the Future When It Arrives
Normal for You, Unheard of for Others
Thinking Around the Corner
The Speed of Gratification
Thank God It’s Monday
Who Cares About Your Ideas?
Wealth Equals Assets Minus Emotions Times Liquidity
What Will You Do When the Future Arrives?
Those Who Can Imagine What Does Not Yet Exist
Creation, Value, and Money
We Are Not Defined by What We Lose
Doing Well But Feeling Bad
It Doesn’t Matter Who’s in Front of You
Train Your Opportunity Scanner
You Have Time
Applying Your Skills to Yourself
The Doctor: Go Early, Go Often
The Dream of Running a Shop
To Someone Else It’s Just “Stuff”
How Long-Term Are We Actually Thinking?
“Why Don’t You Move Elsewhere?”
Knowing Your Boundaries Before You Hit Them
Turn a Page, Have a Look
Take More Off the Top
Field Trip
Action Not Required
The Right Kind of Reality Check
Passion and Work
Feeling Quiet-Good
Peace Is Strength
Out of Depth
28 Things Japan Does Differently
The Hurt Comes Before the Pain
Forget the Grades
Celebrate the Maids
The Time-Sleeper (Excerpt)
The Best Sidekick
Seatbelts Used To Be Controversial
Buying and Selling Revisited
Talk About Yourselves
As Good as It Gets
Go Faster, Splash More
Describing the Problem
The Good Kind of Debt
Keep Trying, Not Score
Keep Following Up
Keep Applying
Keep Submitting
Unreflected Reflexivity
Participation Can Be Small
How To Cure the Hiccups
Continuing To Breathe
Meteors on Schedule
One Level Higher
A Mens’ Round
It’s Different When You Know the Facts
Injecting Yourself With Numbers
Your Focus Determines Your Reality
Smaller Mugs
Reminders in Different Colors
Make Common Sense Common Again
Skip the Punishment
Off-Center
The Preliminary, Official, Final Result
The Best Way To Network
The Work Worth Doing
Growing With Your Challenges
Even at Home You Can Be Humbled
Activity in the Background
Information You Can’t Process
Accounting for the Lag
Flying Home
Back to Blank
Someone Will Be the Statistic
Overcoming Past Traumas
No Reviews
Getting It Right the First Time
The CEO Who Arranged the Flowers
Health Is Subjective
Until Thinking Becomes Knowing
Comfort Art
More Make-Believe
First, Become the Story
Man vs. Bottle
Useful Distractions
Running Your Own Race
A Sensory Check-In
The Thing No One Cares About
Don’t Hurt Yourself, Don’t Hurt Others
People Want To Help
Enough Memories for a Lifetime of Nostalgia
3 Seasons in a Day
Mastering the Basics
Time for the Fun Stuff
Maintaining Low Expectations
Detachment Is Both Offense and Defense
Trust the Timing
Compainion
When Can You Tell?
Gratidepth
Animal Farm by George Orwell (Nik’s Book Notes)
Rebuilding vs. Recovering
Queuing Revisited
Golden Time
Banksy Is Banksy
Not Okay, Also Okay
Choosing To Play in a Broken System
When Literal Will Do
Walking Into a Memory
Culinary Characters
Jaws
Even the Best Credit Expires
Re-Shelving Books You’ve Started
No Wedding Invite
The Uncharted Path Might Be the Easiest
Let the Wind Through
It’s All About Yoga Now
100 Bucks Worth of Fun
What Are Your Baseline Expectations?
You Can Be the Sun or the Night
Confidence Comes With Consistency
On a First-Name Basis
12 Great Books Written by People I Know and Admire
Putting the Books Back on the Shelf
No Bookmarks
The Kind of Joke No One Makes Anymore
The Birds Are Back in Town
We’re Not Saving Lives Here
Happy To Hear From You
Even Giants Stumble
5 Lessons From Reaching My Mid-30s
Your Email Will Not Be Read
You Can Always Improve It Later
The Storyteller Keeps Telling Stories
The Future Is Not Guaranteed
What Cooking Tells Us About AI
Imitation as a Source of Confidence
There’s Usually a Reason
Acknowledging the Job
Rotating Concerns
You Can’t Blow Up a Whale
How Much Had To Be Deleted?
What If Death Was Optional?
The Little Lie That Could
Nature Is Rarely Annoying
Sitting Out
When in Doubt, Choose Different
Glasses All the Time
Hard Work Has No Expiry Date
The Idea River
Sitting Through
She Already Knew
Getting Used to Annoyances
Robots vs. Humans
Back to Paper
Information Addiction as the Root of Bad Habits
Am I Rich Yet?
Relax Your Face
Is There Homework Before the Meeting?
My 10 Favorite Books of 2025
There Is No Easy Money
Use Your Magnifying Glass
Almost Spoke Too Soon
The Devil You Know
New Reasons To Stay on Old Roads
When No One Shows Up
As Long As You Can
Different Rooms
Enjoy the Amateur Enhancements
Leaders Never Really Know
The First Cut Is Deep Enough
63 Boxes
Lead With the Price
One Thing a Day
Speculating on Time
The Live Factor
The 5 Kinds of Highlights
Almost Missed It
Going From A to C Instead of B
What or Should?
The Animals Made the Roads
You Can Come Back Any Time
The Short Version
The Suck Is Why We’re Here
Make
How To Set Yourself Up for a Successful 2026 in 30 Minutes
Don’t Overstretch the Moment
Re-Set Revisited
Sometimes, Empty Is Good
Nice To Be Nice
Area Outpaces Length
Postponing the Necessary
Signs You’re Nailing It as an Artist
Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle
On the Slowdown Side of Life
Will Anyone Even Notice?
Fighting To Get vs. Fighting To Keep
First Person Plural
Desperate Moves
That Time I Thought Germany Had Too Little Housing
Doing Justice in the Right Places
Soulless Software
A Gift Doubled
Once a Year
The Best Part of Eating It Again
The Right Kind of Confirmation Bias
Letting Yourself Catch Up
Letting the Minecart Crash
The Just-Do-It Barbershop
Boring Now, Impressive Later
When Is It Worth Doing?
Becoming a Perpetuum Mobile
A Wrong Crowd Doesn’t Make a New Right
The Right Moment
5 Times 10
Relegated
Startups for Outsiders by Amardeep Parmar (Nik’s Book Notes)
When One Cookie Beats Two
A Warm House
Obsession for Acceleration
Not Every Mistake Must Be Pointed Out
Old People Can Make Cool Things
A Walk in the Dark
Small Mind, Small Decisions
The Second Time, Alexandria Will Drown
Continuing a Good Story
Maybe It Works the Other Way Around
Using the Cards To Play
Try To Run the Wrong Way
Deliberate Context-Switching
Racing to the Wrong Conclusion
The Odds Are Better Than You Think
Already on Bonus Time
Always Scared, Never Stopping
The Timing of Good Things
Destiny’s Book Has an Ending
Disconcerting Dreams
Do What Is Hard When It Is Easy
Inaction as a Statement
The Cold Makes You Think
The Many Shades of Underpromise & Overdeliver
Thank Your Teachers
Meeting Opportunities When They Arrive
Crutches vs. Treats
Slow Mornings
It Can Wait—Can You?
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Nik’s Book Notes)
Seeing It in Person
Friend’s Will Be Friends’
The Best Defense
The Domestos Dragon
What If the Devil Quit?
Slow Healing Makes the Lesson Last
One Hour More
It’s Nice If Someone Else Does It
Long Flights
The Pot, the Kettle, and the Elephant
Rolling With It
Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers
Special Is Optional
Ice Cream in October
Seeing Under Water
Real Life Has No Subtitles
Waiting 2 Years for 10 Hours
Stars Align in Their Own Time
The People You Love Will Quietly Change You
Next to the Main Event
“But Then I…”
Religion for the Modern World
Your Body Needs To Last a Lifetime
Fake Beards and Throwing Stars
Just Hold Down the Button
Coincidence Is Common
On Choosing Dead Idols
Is It Easy or Just Easy To Try?
You Are the Vast, Infinite Sea of Endless Peace
The Ball Might Hit You
Moving Distractions Further Away
High Quality, Low Prices
Things Need Not Have Happened To Be True
Curiosity Killed the Energy
Friendships Don’t Expire
Harder Than It Looks
Humans in Pressure Cookers
Movement in the House
Not Minding That It Hurts