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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Biggest Decision You'll Ever Make
Choose wisely.
Keagan Stokoe
Jun 22, 2020
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The Problem With Passion
A strategy for finding work you love.
Keagan Stokoe
Jun 18, 2020
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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
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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
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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
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Good Grades = Big Problem
The worst thing I learned in University was learning to get good grades.
Keagan Stokoe
Apr 29, 2020
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The Navalmanack
An interview with Eric Jorgenson, author of the 'The Almanack of Naval.'
Keagan Stokoe
Apr 21, 2020
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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
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Recovering From Pessimism
An interview with Visualize Value founder, Jack Butcher.
Keagan Stokoe
Apr 13, 2020
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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
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Make Difficult Things
By doing difficult things, you're able to answer difficult questions. This makes you extremely valuable.
Keagan Stokoe
Apr 8, 2020
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