The process of adaptation is one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences to undergo:  The first stage of adaptation is often a struggle: 

You’re exposed to brand new situations and problems that you don’t yet know how to best respond to.  Everything feels ambiguous and uncertain. 

At...

You might be wrong and that’s okay.

You should try anyways, because then you’ll know:

You’ll know if it works (or kinda works).

You’ll know if it doesn’t work. 

With each new attempt comes new observations. 

With each new observation, your intuitions will subtly shift — you’ll be slightly...

We do not have unlimited time to make things. 

The market is constantly shifting and evolving. 

The process of creating anything useful is therefore time-bound exercise.

Things need to happen.

So give yourself or your team a set of time to make something and when that time expires,...

I made a YouTube video a couple of weeks ago. 

I’m not proficient at capturing and cutting footage yet, so naturally I looked to other YouTube channels to try to understand how other content creators organize their content.

One of the most intriguing observations I came across was in...

What’s the solvable problem?

That is always the first question to answer. 

Without a solvable problem, all the conversations you’re having about widgets, features, functions, and any other semblance of a solution is premature and at risk of being irrelevant.

For thousands of years up until the late 19th century, it was common medical practice to withdraw blood from a patient to prevent or treat illness. Of course, we’ve since learned that this way of treating patients doesn’t work the way we thought it did. 

Just over a decade...

Just start.

It will be clunky at first because you’re figuring things out (that never really stops). 

You will learn a lot along the way.

You will feel the full spectrum of emotions: from doubt, to excitement, to frustration, to fulfillment. If you can feel it, you’re going to...

Your relationships are made of finite moments. 

Your health span is made of finite moments. 

Your ability to travel is made of finite moments. 

Your ability to put in a full day’s effort into the things you care about is made of finite moments.  Everything in this...

I was raised in an environment where I was encouraged to always be productive. 

Whenever I was caught idling, I was promptly instructed to do ‘better’ things with my time — like studying or reading. 

This mindset comes from a place of good intentions, and in some ways...

The value of your efforts to solve a problem depends on what stage you’re at in developing a solution: 

All the effort you put in to get to an adequate solution that you and your team can live with is the most valuable. 

Any additional effort after that...