Weekly Mix #265 -

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Happy Monday!

Hard choices, easy life

Average life, average outcome, extreme life, extreme outcome

Focus on quality like Stripe tweet

Infrastructure and the rising cost of building things

Anti-goals (ex: less book reading, more shows IF biking)

Leaving feeling stronger (applicable in the gym, applicable when starting any new habit)

How your delivery helps win arguments

The ideal amount of stress

Speed (how speed can help overcome other problems)

Have a great week!

Graham

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Links

📚 Book Notes: Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect - Bob Rotella - As we head into golf season, I've been ramping up my practice, but also my reading about the mental side of the game. The Inner Game of Golf is still my top pick, but this book was also good, with some good examples and practical advice.

📖 Blog Post: 24 Things I Do to Maximize My Productivity - I'm slowly getting back into the habit of writing more, which was one of my goals in moving to the 4-day work week.

Partly as a reminder to myself, this is a list of all the important things I do each week to be productive.

📖 Adam Robinson on Understanding - Matt Mullenweg - This post is mostly a quote from Tribe of Mentors. The gist is this: in 1974, psychologist Paul Slovic wanted to study the effect of information on decision-making.

He gave a group of horse bettors an increasing amount of information. First five data points, then ten, then twenty, then forty.

The accuracy of their predictions didn't change. But their confidence in those predictions did! Which meant they bet more, and lost more.

I think about this story a lot in the context of startups and decision-making. Often we search for more detailed data, or a more complex model. But all that may be doing is falsely increasing our confidence. And that may mean we could plan better if we made things simpler.

🔧 LeaderBird - The Twitter streak tool. I love seeing tools and products that are built as MVPs, and this is a great example. Built in a weekend (details here), this app is a great example of two important concepts: a very simple app to serve a specific problem, and seeing if people will buy right away.

🏠 Gawthorne's Hut - The Design Files - Not the prettiest exterior, but a gorgeous interior, a combination of warm wood and concrete & stone. With off-grid homes, I always think it must be a cool feeling to know you're self-sufficient.

🏠 The most ingenious recycled homes - Clare Dowdy - BBC -

🏠 Attic Dwellings prefab homes -

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