Learning piano shows what progress looks like for me—several days of not much, followed by surprising outbursts of new ability. Most days, it is a slog to practice a row of sheet music, and then on rare special days, the muscle memory takes over my fingers, and I can play the Turkish March without …

It is now 10 o’clock in the morning. I take a pen and make a tick mark on my daily planner next to the line “9.30 am - write”. I track my days in 30-minute increments, and the last 30 minutes have unfolded as I planned. Even though I have been doing this only over the previous …

Financial security Morgan Housel on All the Hacks — podcast episode Morgan Housel talks about various things, but what stood out for me was how I should be careful when talking about money matters to others. Some in the FIRE community ruined their relationships to their loved ones because they were …