Sitemap - 2026 - Creativity & Culture

Daily Reads 139: AI producing fake experts, and the quarter at Aldi is worth more than 25 cents.

Daily Reads 138: Asking what’s next, suffering, and ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ by Robert Frost.

Daily Reads 137: Solutions for solved problems, and inefficient opportunities in jobs to be done.

Daily Reads 136: Opportunity stacking, and the odds of ‘probably’

Daily Reads 135: Showing up to personal challenges, fearing success, and the wonder of making it.

Daily Reads 134: Reverse déjà vu in poetry, and reverse crisis in life.

Daily Reads 133: The greed of busyness, and the generosity of building.

Daily Reads 132: Visionary delusions versus delusional visions, and measuring numbers you don’t use.

Daily Reads 131: The book-reader buying cycle, strategic frameworks, and weighing yourself daily.

Daily Reads 130: Costs and benefits of investing in your future, and sabotaging misplaced identity.

Daily Reads 129: Influence in our attitudes, silos, and meeting social needs.

Daily Reads 128: Making time for life, influencing action, and reading a new poem, “Day 8”

Day 8

Daily Reads 127: With Doc Hypnosis, discussing his new book, Great Scott!

Daily Reads 126: Running from winning to caring enough to build success.

Daily Reads 125: Persuading people who aren’t in the room, and over confidence in high performers.

Daily Reads 124: Choosing the inevitable outcome, and the limits of what maximum raw talent can do.

Daily Reads 123: Open source innovation, competition, and the advantage of being human.

Daily Reads 122: Processing memories like remembering a movie… And inheriting them too?

Daily Reads 121: Merit that promotes is more than working hard, and tips for interesting prose.

Daily Reads 120: Life stories of trials and success, and moving from loss through grief for healing.

Daily Reads 119: Traits of top 1% performers, generational philosophies, and a persuasion interview.

Daily Reads 118: Premium talent outliers, and talent in isolation is overrated.

Daily Reads 117: UAP microphysics, AI made discoveries, ancient civilizations, and fantasy math.

Daily Reads 116: Identity trapped by wrapping paper decisions, and purchasing future thoughts.

Daily Reads 115: Having kids “erases” and redeems you, and cooking up community with paella.

Daily Reads 114: Reverse information, and personal growth on vacation.

Daily Reads 113: Creatine, and grit being the multiplier in fighting for achievement and skill.

Daily Reads 112: Addiction versus development, history rewrites repeat, and That Hideous Strength.

Daily Reads 111: Leadership lessons on change and communication from DOGE and Age of Empires.

Daily Reads 110: How to love mornings, “why” is a gift, and, “...nothing from nothing is nothing."

Daily Reads 109: Dreaming when you’re awake, a last wish, and how does beauty exist in war?

Daily Reads 108: Scientists discovered a 6th sense, being uncomfortable on purpose, and a new poem.

America's Founding

Daily Reads 107: America’s 250th anniversary, reading 3 poems to celebrate, and tips for writing your own poem.

Daily Reads 106: A material experts thought was impossible, and the opportunity descent.

Daily Reads 105: Fatherly influence, Leviticus leadership, and screentime parenting.

Daily Reads 104: A Dilbert prediction, memories in the literal heart, and agency and sovereignty.

Daily Reads 103: Continental divides, 10 marketing ideas, and why you can just be uncool.

Daily Reads 102: Fun Friday, team building, innate motivations.

Daily Reads 101: 10 unconventional lessons from 100 days of a live stream experiment.

What I've learned from 100 days of a live streaming experiment.

Daily Reads (Live Stream Experiment Day 100) - Illusions of predictability, and staying power.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 99) - Interesting writing flips, and case study coaching.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 98) - Trust and short-term cynicism versus long-term vision.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 97) - Daily habits, weekly habits, intentional interruptions.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 96) - Judging books by their covers, happiness and meaning.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 95) - 15 lessons from writing, affirmations, and a new poem.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 94) - SpaceX, 1 million people on Mars, $7.5 trillion vision

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 93) - Ulterior motives, or “why?” when it makes no sense.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 92) - Learn to see through art, and general relativity.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 91) - What human nature predicts.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 90) - Caffeine: messaging, marketing, telling the truth.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 89) - Knowing what's possible; adoption and trauma.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 88) - With poet and publisher, Stephanie, of King Ari Press.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 87) - Social media growth, family growth, remembering

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 86) - The human condition and John Berryman's "Dream Song 1"

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 85) - Biological AI, collaborative spiders, memory illusions.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 84) - Expectations for yourself, family, and leadership.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 83) - Momentum, talent under pressure, ideas never shared.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 82) - High ground vision to give permission, and "clean" art.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 81) - Making sense of the world by predicting success.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 80) - Family history, childhood play, making sense of life.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 79) - Selling or investing regrets, fake meaning, real action

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 78) - With Anthony Garone, polymath musician, "OK, but why?"

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 77) - Making memories when life is limited.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 76) - The 3 Musketeers of Persuasion, Win Bigly, and Talent

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 75) - Power of positive talking, network effects, and dreams.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 74) - Meta-persuasion, bureaucratic trade-offs, and learning.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 73) - A fun Friday with corporate slop, bad weather excuses for cheeseburgers, Star Wars, MRR (Media Religion Rule), and Russell Crowe's humility

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 72) - With Paul Scott Grill, author of Travel by Star

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 71) - Self-awareness for better or worse: persuaded by you

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 70) - Writing books nobody wants to read

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 69) - OODA Loop, IQ + EQ = PQ, Personal Innovation at Scale.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 68) - Organizational dysfunction made fun, and do hard things

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 67) - Intrinsic motivation, focusing on how, audience affect.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 66) - Reframing belief, consciousness, and the universe

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 65) - History and Religious Narratives

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 64) - It's personal now? When to take it offense.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 63) - Building character, matter, biology—and staying sober.

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 62) - Education, Continual Learning, and Intellectual Depth

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 61) - Trust is Your Service and Reputation is Your Brand

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 60) - AI, Poetry, and the So-Called "Divine Spark" of Life

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 59) - The Science Behind Worship Music + Palantir's Manifesto

Healing Physician

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 58) - Imagining 3rd Order Effects

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 57) - Strength, Weakness, the Ceiling, and Breaking Through

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 56) - Mental Scripts for Resilience and Renewal

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 55) - Making Creativity

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 54) - Making the Most of Every Opportunity—or Possibility

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 53) - Food and family—and rewiring your brain for creativity

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 52) - AI Thinking for You? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 51) - The War on Motherhood and Stewarding Families

Daily Reads (Livestream Experiment Day 50) - What is true grit?

The Woods

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