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Nathan A. Cunningham
Nathan A. Cunningham

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Take the Harder Way

I’ve had a tendency to learn things the hard way — initially because I was stubborn and arrogant, but more recently because I’ve come to realize that the hard way is sometimes the right way and often the only way to learn. When you acknowledge that success is about the…

Life

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Take the Harder Way
Take the Harder Way
Life

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4 days ago

15 Things You Need for ______

…for your journey? When captured this list I was in Startup mode, and it was an idea I captured after a run — the title: “Things you need for a startup as well as a trail run in the rain.” I think there were 10. While cleaning up my Evernote, and recently inspired by this incredible post by Scott Belsky — “some sunday thoughts on…

Tools

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15 Things You Need for ______
15 Things You Need for ______
Tools

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Aug 24

Fly Arrows, Fly

There is a proverb that likens one’s children to arrows. If you have kids you want them to fly! To make an impact. To live well. When they do, the joy, pride, and surprise is unlike any other human experience. An example of this was something my daughter wrote recently…

Addiction

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Fly Arrows, Fly
Fly Arrows, Fly
Addiction

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Aug 12

The Trail

It seems obvious and widely accepted that it’s important to take notes, just ask Leonardo da Vinci or Richard Branson. And I’ve written elsewhere about Notebooks, Journals, and Common Place Books. Here is a component of my note taking or journalling, and example, and a fatal flaw you’ll want to…

Notetaking

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The Trail
The Trail
Notetaking

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Jul 27

Why it’s Traction not Tracktion

When we’re stuck we might say we’re off track. And yet its rare that we hit our goals as smoothly as though riding on rails. In fact, if a train is off the tracks, a huge disaster has occurred. Most of impediments to progress are not as on the order…

Progress

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Why it’s Traction not Tracktion
Why it’s Traction not Tracktion
Progress

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Jul 16

6 Keys to Personal Effectiveness

Robin Sharma’s writing captivated me with this quote some years ago. I still think about this principle often. Change is hard in the beginning, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end. I find myself regularly at the beginning. A life motto I keep going back to is that…

Personal Effectiveness

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6 Keys to Personal Effectiveness
6 Keys to Personal Effectiveness
Personal Effectiveness

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Jul 8

Why Read and Write if AI can do it for you?

In the age of generative AI where you can install a Chrome plug-in that automatically summarizes results of google searches or articles you’re reading, you might ask why bother writing anything? Sidebar: Perhaps this question is most critically addressed to students. And did you know that ChatGPT usage data has…

Writing

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Why Read and Write if AI can do it for you?
Why Read and Write if AI can do it for you?
Writing

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Jul 6

Erosion of Advantages

The erosion is slow. But eventually the advantage is just gone and something else has completely replaced it. Submarine duty in the US Navy is known as “silent service” because of the quiet nature of the duties aboard a sub. Stealth, the ability to run silent and go unnoticed in…

Innovation

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Erosion of Advantages
Erosion of Advantages
Innovation

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Jul 4

Died on the 4th of July

John Adams, a chief advocate of the Declaration of Independence, died on July 4th, 1826. Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, died on July 4th, 1826. Yes, they died on the same day! And it was the nation’s 50th birthday. According to John Quincey Adams (John Adam’s…

John Adams

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Died on the 4th of July
Died on the 4th of July
John Adams

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Jul 3

Why Good Writing is Hard

Good Writing has value. For you or for someone else. For me, its value is a sense of achievement and it helps me think more clearly. But I want it to be good. And to hit the Publish button with confidence that I did my best. I want it to…

Writing

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Why Good Writing is Hard?
Why Good Writing is Hard?
Writing

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Nathan A. Cunningham

Nathan A. Cunningham

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