Philosophy

Does It Matter If I Know What I’m Doing?

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you might need to click through to watch the video.] In this vlog, I raise a counter-intuitive problem: there are cases in which knowing your craft well changes people’s perspectives about what you’re doing. What’s also interesting is that our evaluations change depending on which craft is [...]

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Why We Need More Reflection on Enough

Earlier today, I tweeted the following statement: Been thinking a lot about what “Enough” means for my life and biz. If I don’t know where there is, how can I get there? The reactions to this statement were interesting. One reaction was that asking someone to be, have, or do less than they can is [...]

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How to Swim Through A Sea Of Social Troubles Without Drowning

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache [...]

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Aligning Strategy and Compassion

Today’s post is a conversation I wish someone would’ve had with me years ago before I started my entrepreneurial journey. I may not have been able to understand it then, but it would have been nice to at least have it on the board. I’m sharing it with you so that it is something you [...]

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The Missing Half of Productivity Advice: Why Women Need to Get Involved

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Hale from Aliventures. I‘m a woman, and I care about productivity. So today I want to start reaching towards some answers to the question Charlie posted in What If Women Cared About Productivity? (You might like to read or re-read that post – it’s from December [...]

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Is An Automated Response Better Than No Response At All?

[I'm trying something slightly different here. Some of you may have hear me musing about snippets on Twitter last week, but basically, "snippets" are ideas that are longer than tweets but shorter than my normal posts. We'll see how it goes.] There are two conversations that I’d like to join. The first post is Naomi’s [...]

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Ask Charlie: What Are The Different Types of Intelligence?

Note: In the “Ask Charlie” posts, I answer the questions I get from people via email or Twitter. I’m here to please! ;p This one comes from Hope Flanagan: Question/Suggestion: Write on how intelligence is just a construct and everyone is intelligent in various ways even if they don’t fit the technical definition. This is [...]

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Smoke, Mirrors, and Lemonade

Having the skill to reframe experiences, perspectives, and statements is a powerful skill to have. It can help you get the most out of life, and it’s a critical skill to have as coach, teacher, or leader. Like any skill, though, it has to be used in moderation. When it’s underused, we get fixated on [...]

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Why I’m Helping Haiti The Way I Am

[If you're reading this in a feed reader or email, you might have to click through to watch the video.] This one’s hard to nail. It’s a video follow-up to my last post and includes some of the background of why I’m doing what I’m doing, but it also addresses the negative feedback I’ve gotten [...]

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