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Better Than Your Worst
Hi , Better Questions has hit 5,000 subscribers! Thank you so much for being here. It means the world to me, and I hope you’ve gotten some value out of these emails. I promised I would do something special to celebrate, and I’m working on it…watch this

Wayfinding
This post originally appeared on the “Better Questions” email list. If you’d like to get one email like this a week, please sign up at BetterQuestionsEmail.com. Thanks! —— Hi , We’re getting very close to 5,000 active subscribers here at Better Questions! I can’t tell you how

Bad Priors: COVID-19 Edition
Hi , Straight into it this week! —- What did I get wrong about COVID-19? —- When I started this email list, all the way back in the beginning of 2020, I didn’t know what I wanted to write about. I didn’t have to wait long. When COVID-19 began

All Or Nothing
Hi , This week, we’re finishing up our series on Behavior Change! And what treatment of change would be complete without talking about… Failure. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Am I failing as a hero? Because of my own background, I am often asked by would-be entrepreneurs seeking escape from life within huge corporate

Barrett's Rule
This post originally appeared on the “Better Questions” email list. If you’d like to get one email like this a week, please sign up at BetterQuestionsEmail.com. Thanks! —— Hi , We’ve got a legitimate (accidental) series on our hands here! It didn’t start off this way, but we’

Sustainably Successful
This post originally appeared on the “Better Questions” email list. If you’d like to get one email like this a week, please sign up at BetterQuestionsEmail.com. Thanks! —— Hi , Hope you’re having a great week. Let’s get to it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could I do this forever? Over the

Dominant Thoughts
This post originally appeared on the “Better Questions” email list. If you’d like to get one email like this a week, please sign up at BetterQuestionsEmail.com. Thanks! —— Hi , (A brief word of warning. While there is nothing salacious in this letter at all, it does include a shirtless

Ironic Processes
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No Time
This post originally appeared on the “Better Questions” email list. If you’d like to get one email like this a week, please sign up at BetterQuestionsEmail.com. Thanks! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What takes time? Joseph Roth, the brilliant Austrian journalist and novelist who moved to Berlin in 1920, said at the

The Product Is You
This post originally appeared on the “Better Questions” email list. If you’d like to get one email like this a week, please sign up at BetterQuestionsEmail.com. Thanks! —— Hi , Hope you’re having a killer week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How do I subtract? > “What’s it going to take to
