Category: productivity

  • Optimization stress and stickers | Doubtful solutions

    Here’s one of my videos I thought you’d like. It’s about more than stickers. It’s about stress, and maximizing, and how making ourselves happy can make us miserable.   You can watch more of our vlog and the Doubtful Solutions Brothers here.

  • My relationship with self-help, or how a magician ruined my childhood.

    I remember something that happened back when I was young. Young enough that the memory is hazy, and I’m not entirely sure what age I was. My family went to a magic show in a large, dark auditorium, and the magician must have been pretty uninteresting to an ambiguously aged boy like me, because I don’t remember…

  • Four things I do to keep me in line [video]

    Every week, my brother and I record vlogs to each other, under the name Doubtful Solutions Brothers. Our vimeo profile is here, our website is here. The videos don’t always pertain to this blog, but when they do, I’ll post them with added commentary. In this video, I outline four things I do to make…

  • How to create your own personal college class

    It’s common for many people to come out of college and stop learning. When no one is forcing you to learn and improve yourself, it’s easy to do nothing. Sonia and I recently realized that we’ve really slacked off in the learning category since college – we still read good books, but the focused, intentional learning…