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The Curse of Ambition

As they set sail for the United States of America in 1630, the Puritans’ ships were brimming with an ethos of hard work and frugality. As...

Keagan Stokoe

Nov 24, 2020

Get Yourself a "Think About It Later" Box

A technique to filter good thoughts from bad thoughts, while improving focus and attention.

Keagan Stokoe

Nov 16, 2020

What To Care About In A Job

It’s all too easy to view a job as a job, a day’s work as a day’s pay. I hate this approach to work.

Keagan Stokoe

Nov 10, 2020

How To Do Great Work

The riptide represents a leverage point: a place where little effort produces large output. This is an essay about finding riptides.

Keagan Stokoe

Oct 27, 2020

On Living a Life of Purpose In Your 20's

It's a scary realisation that every day spent doing something other than what you love most today is a day you’ll likely regret in future.

Keagan Stokoe

Oct 8, 2020

Five Pieces of the Education Puzzle

If we don’t walk away from how we did things yesterday, it’s difficult to imagine that tomorrow will be any better than today.

Keagan Stokoe

Sep 29, 2020

Part II: Creating An Addiction

The systems are in place to transform education. It’s now about choices that parents, teachers and regulators can make, or shy away from.

Keagan Stokoe

Aug 6, 2020

Forget Reform. We Need a Revolution

The best kind of labour was cheap, and nobody was cheaper than a 7-year-old kid.

Keagan Stokoe

Jul 23, 2020

The Modern-Day Mind-Killer

When everything we do is determined by how we think, our minds are worth protecting. Are you protecting yours?

Keagan Stokoe

Jul 10, 2020

The Biggest Decision You'll Ever Make

Choose wisely.

Keagan Stokoe

Jun 22, 2020

The Problem With Passion

A strategy for finding work you love.

Keagan Stokoe

Jun 18, 2020

Why I Abandoned 22% of My Life

I had just finished my second degree when I decided to abandon it all. Here's why I did it.

Keagan Stokoe

Jun 4, 2020

Destroying Leadership

I calculated that I’ve met 17,500 people in my life. Of the people I've met, I can count the exceptional leaders on my fingers.

Keagan Stokoe

May 21, 2020

Nothing Can Protect You Against Loneliness

Everybody feels lonely sometimes. It's part of your biology. You can make it a little better though.

Keagan Stokoe

May 7, 2020

Good Grades = Big Problem

The worst thing I learned in University was learning to get good grades.

Keagan Stokoe

Apr 29, 2020

The Navalmanack

An interview with Eric Jorgenson, author of the 'The Almanack of Naval.'

Keagan Stokoe

Apr 21, 2020

Prune Your Bullshit

Our lives are full of bullshit. We'd do well to get rid of some of it.

Keagan Stokoe

Apr 15, 2020

Recovering From Pessimism

An interview with Visualize Value founder, Jack Butcher.

Keagan Stokoe

Apr 13, 2020

The Answers Lie at The Intersection of Humanities and Technology

For many students, universities stifle their intellectual curiosity. Here's why it's a problem, and how we can try to fix it.

Keagan Stokoe

Apr 9, 2020

Make Difficult Things

By doing difficult things, you're able to answer difficult questions. This makes you extremely valuable.

Keagan Stokoe

Apr 8, 2020