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  1. wordwarrior

    New Book: Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

    I just found about this book today while browsing my Twitter feed. It already has glowing reviews from James Clear (Atomic Habits) and Cal Newport (Deep Work). It'll be released September 28th. https://www.nirandfar.com/indistractable/
  2. wordwarrior

    Proctor & Gamble's Gillette TV Ad Gamble Failure

    RANT 
    MJ made it clear in UNSCRIPTED that these tactics are counterproductive: View: https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1156625405710864384
  3. wordwarrior

    What if insurance didn't exist?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    It's been pointed out to me that there's no such thing as insurance in Pakistan. In Pakistan if your house or car gets damaged, you're out of luck and have to get it replaced. Assuming the part of the SCRIPT that tricked people into not saving and spending on credit was abolished, would people...
  4. wordwarrior

    Canadian health care: Time to face reality

    RANT 
    This opinion may not be popular among some of the Canadians on the forum, but I think it's time to call a spade a spade: The health care system in Canada (and especially in my province) is unacceptably bad and throwing more money at the problem isn't going to fix it. Politicians who compare...
  5. wordwarrior

    Another scourge of the slowlane: open offices

    SLOWLANE RANT 
    'Nuff said: Mark Allan Bovair on Twitter
  6. wordwarrior

    Mainstream News and its effects on motivation

    MINDSET 
    If this tweet is true, news is designed to enrage you: Jim O'Shaughnessy on Twitter My personal experience confirms this. A while back I was mostly just reading and working on personal projects in my free time. I added a second Twitter account following only entrepreneurs and read only its...
  7. wordwarrior

    Supreme Court: Apple is a Monopoly ?!?!?

    RANT 
    So apparently a company with roughly 15% market share for smartphones and takes a 30% cut of all sales is a monopoly: Apple insists App Store 'not a monopoly,' expects to win in court By this logic, Amazon, with an 83% market share for eBooks and that takes a 70% cut of revenues outside a...
  8. wordwarrior

    Ad Fraud

    MARKETING 
    What are your thoughts on ad fraud? The definition is fraudulent clicks/impressions/etc that presumably results in a transfer of wealth from advertisers to scammers. The size of ad fraud has been estimated $19 billion per year. The fight against ad fraud in 4 charts - Digiday
  9. wordwarrior

    Get Creative Juices Flowing: The Creative Brain documentary

    MINDSET 
    Just watched this and it's the best documentary I've ever seen. Neuroscientist David Eagleman emphasizes how crucial the creative process is both for humanity as a whole and individuals. He then drills down into how you can take concrete actions to spur your creative process. There's some...
  10. wordwarrior

    Looking for New Email and Web Hosting Services

    MARKETING 
    I currently use Google services for my personal email and blog, and I don't have a personal or business web site. This needs to change. Do you have any recommendations? This sort of relates to the command of control even though both services are complimentary to any business/career. Both are...
  11. wordwarrior

    Ultimate Guide to Writing Online - David Perell

    SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING 
    This is a wonderful article (written by David Perell) about improving your web presence. It's not about running a business per se but about blogging, writing, maintaining a website/personal portal, and contacting/connecting with your audience: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online Highlights...
  12. wordwarrior

    Apple News+ now with magazines

    What are your thoughts on today's Apple announcement about magazines? Does this represent an opportunity for new entrepreneurs, or does this simply strengthen the position of established magazine vendors?
  13. wordwarrior

    Deep Work by Cal Newport: Is it worth it?

    BOOKS 
    Have any of you read Deep Work by Cal Newport? Do you recommend it? If so or if not, please elaborate on why.
  14. wordwarrior

    Value of rereading certain books

    i know some of you have mentioned that you’ve reread one or both of MJ’s books. This brings up a larger question: Is it worth it to reread the few very best books you’ve read? If you’ve done so, what were the benefits? Given the need to have a bias for action and not fall into the book...
  15. wordwarrior

    Bug Report: Fatal Error when searching for "speed reading"

    Steps to reproduce: Search the forum for the following text: "speed reading". Searching for other text does not trigger the bug and searches return results normally. Symptoms/actual behaviour: A blank page with nothing but the following text: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456...
  16. wordwarrior

    Speed Reading: Is it worth it?

    HOT! 
    I'll preface this post with an acknowledgement: I realize that MJ and many established members of this forum advocate doing over getting caught in an endless reading cycle. This makes sense, but in the process of doing I'm sure many of us will have to do at least some reading/crash...
  17. wordwarrior

    Commuting: The scourge of the sidewalk/slowlane

    MINDSET SLOWLANE RANT 
    There's a CBC article on a Statistics Canada study about Canadians' commutes: Time is money: Here's how your commute is costing you both | CBC News To me, this is the absolute worse facet of the sidewalk/slowlane. It's the ultimate prostitution of time. Showing up for work eight hours a day...
  18. wordwarrior

    Which fastlaners do you follow on Twitter?

    MINDSET 
    The dark side of social media is well known and well documented. However, there is a tremendous positive side as well, at least on Twitter. There are highly successful people out there who motivate and share good advice. First and foremost in this list is obviously @MJDeMarco. Here are some...
  19. wordwarrior

    Software Business and Technical Debt

    I've been a software developer for close to 20 years so I thought I'd share some thoughts that might be of interest to fellow Fastlaners looking to get into the software business. Running a business based on software requires a correct perspective. Failing to do so can be deadly to such a...
  20. wordwarrior

    Intro: Software Developer Looking for a New Path

    INTRO 
    After reading Millionaire Fastlane a week ago and setting up my account, I've been perusing the forums for a week before my first post (aside from replying to the "I've read Millionaire Fastlane" thread). Now it's time to introduce myself. I'm a software developer in Montreal, Canada in my...
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