My newsletter How It Actually Works & being @ Lambda School are my 2 professional highlights of 2018.

My newsletter How It Actually Works & being @ Lambda School are my 2 professional highlights of 2018. You can follow @AustenAllred for LS updates, so I'll do HIAW here :)

The most popular essays w/ some commentary:

Future You Masturbation https://www.howitactuallyworks.com/archives/future_you_masturbation.html … We usually start new goals by "planning" how we'll be awesome: shopping for work out clothes, analyzing the "best" path, generally thinking about how to do it, instead of just effing doing it.

Funner to imagine than do

One Reason We're Afraid to Take Action https://www.howitactuallyworks.com/archives/one_reason_why_were_afraid_to_take_action.html … Because if you try & fail it destroys your identity as Person Who Can Do That Thing As Soon As I Try.

Like saying "I could totally run a marathon if I just ran 26.2 miles"

Tech support vs the Sermon on the Mount https://www.howitactuallyworks.com/archives/tech_support_vs_the_sermon_on_the_mount.html … How Ron Johnson uses narrative, mission, and meaning to elevate a tech support company to a Jesus-level mission

Efficiency is an Excuse To Not Do the Actual Work https://www.howitactuallyworks.com/archives/efficiency_is_an_excuse_to_not_do_the_actual_work.html … Short and sweet

Pain is the Point https://www.howitactuallyworks.com/archives/pain_is_the_point.html … "A goal is a selection of problems you’ve chosen to overcome in order to give meaning & purpose to your life."

Those are some highlights from 2018. I'm proud that I've published every Monday at 7am Eastern for the past year, and boy do I plan to continue.