Sustained Writing

Do less of everything. And more of it.  I started writing morning pages about four months ago. Morning pages are a practice evangelized by Julia Cameron in The Artist's Way in which I write continuously in pen on a notepad for three pages. I do this while waiting for my... Read More

In his classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig posits two kinds of people: those who love to ride motorcycles and others who enjoy working with them.  The first gr... Read More

The best entrepreneurs I know fail fast with small experiments in pursuit of market insight. And when they have secrets, they capitalize on them with their time, capital, and reputations.  I wondered for a long time what separates them from other entrepreneurs I know who seem just a... Read More

Go narrow to be sharp.  Business planning is a class taught at most business schools. The usual requirement for a student's completion is writing a competent business plan given some underlying data. There is a story that at least one year, the professor assigned everyone the sa... Read More

In health insurance, there is an idea of "per member per month" pricing. A member is a single insured individual. A member might be an employee of a company who offers a plan from the insurer. Or the member might be the spouse or a child of that individual. Since anyone can get sick, we... Read More