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Under 200

04.07.2023 by Greg Kemble // 2 Comments

Public scale in Italian - Bilancia di Precisione Automatica

For the first time in over two years, I weigh under 200 pounds.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // pandemic, slow carb diet, thyroid, tim ferriss, weight loss

Here we go again…

03.12.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Why are we still doing this?

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Categories // Prattle Tags // amanda palmer, dustin buehler, jane coastan, joseph takahashi, matt walker, sleep, the argument, tim ferriss

Seth’s The Practice: “58. Practical Empathy”

03.03.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Someone, not everyone.

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Seth’s The Practice: “32. Fly-Fishing Lessons”

02.02.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Focus on the process.

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts, Prattle Tags // elizabeth king, notes and thoughts, practice notes, seth godin, steven pressfield, the practice, tim ferriss, war of art

Seth’s The Practice: “16. The Process and the Outcome”

01.16.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Focusing on short-term outcomes destroys creative work.

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts, Prattle Tags // brian koppelman, notes and thoughts, practice notes, seth godin, susan kare, the practice, tim ferriss

Seth’s The Practice: “11. Creativity is an Action, Not a Feeling”

01.10.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Action must precede feeling, when necessary.

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts, Prattle Tags // atomic habits, christopher sommer, james clear, james-lange theory, notes and thoughts, practice notes, seth godin, the practice, tim ferriss

Godin’s The Practice: “3. Are You Searching for Something?”

12.31.2022 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

I’m not 100% sure I understand the chapter title….

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts, Prattle Tags // art, christmas, notes and thoughts, practice notes, seth godin, steven pressfield, the practice, the resistance, tim ferriss

Godin’s The Practice: “1. It’s Possible”

12.29.2022 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

“It’s possible” seems like a good place to start.

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts, Prattle Tags // akimbo, brian koppelman, growth mindset, mindsets, notes and thoughts, positive thinking, practice notes, seth godin, the practice, tim ferriss

Notes and Thoughts on Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work

12.26.2022 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Blackout poem: "I write what I want to read."
Newspaper blackout poem from Austin Kleon’s website: https://austinkleon.com/2014/06/11/mission-statement/

I’m afraid that all I really needed from this book was the title: Show Your Work.

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts, Oh, Ick, Prattle Tags // austin kleon, brian eno, david byrne, ian svenonius, john scalzi, metrics, notes and thoughts, outdoor elvis, paul bloom, piper cj, pragmatism, rick beato, robin sloan, seth godin, show your work, sidney lumet, sting, the night and its moon, the swirling eddies, tim ferriss

What I’m reading:
Matt Walker’s Why We Sleep

06.04.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

If Amanda Fucking Palmer has been “having a passionate affair” with a book—if “the information [in that book] is literally, physically, technically changing [her] life on a day-to-day basis”—well, I figured it might be worth a read.

And so far, it has been.

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Greg in front of a wall sculpture at SFO
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