by Gabriel Stein | Jan 2, 2022 | Business, Productivity
This post has been updated multiple times based on many personal sagas as well as helping others go through it. Warning: It’s because of this experience that I think you MUST have a success state or finish line in mind before you go through this. This process...
by Gabriel Stein | Jan 14, 2020 | Business, Personal, Personal Development, Productivity
Since your net worth is created by your network, skillfully growing and managing it should be a top priority of anyone who’s interested in greater stability, safety, and opportunity in life. NFX has even gone so far as to say it dictates much of your life. So if...
by Gabriel Stein | Oct 21, 2019 | Personal Development
Journaling is an open concept, but essentially an “accounting” (keeping a record of events) from a certain time frame. I would suggest recording high significance events within a single wake-cycle time frame (or 24 hours or “day”). If you’re simply looking for a way...
by Gabriel Stein | Oct 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
The most important and probably most ignored idea in finance or life is the reality of time. Compound period is an example of the interaction between an investment, and the time between when the return is compounded back into the principal and reinvested. For example,...
by Gabriel Stein | Jul 29, 2019 | Personal
Polarity is a useful idea. It offers a filter and direction for energy and resources to move. It orients people towards an objective. Even more so with culture at scale. Culture must be polarizing. Giving away a Ferrari will attract lots of people, but not the right...
by Gabriel Stein | Jul 28, 2019 | Personal, Productivity
If time is the most important resource, then actually being consistent and serious about that is necessary. One of the best ways to manage this reality is to both plan, and track 100% of your time in Google Calendar. The reason for 100% is that if you multiply 60...
by Gabriel Stein | Jul 3, 2019 | Business, Personal, Personal Development
I talk to a lot of people (especially those early in their careers) who are figuring out how to find a direction to pursue (a good pursuit) and accumulate resources such as experience, relationships, skills, knowledge, etc in (capitalism). A simple tool I developed...
by Gabriel Stein | Jun 24, 2019 | Personal, Personal Development
I’ve recently observed how particularly in the last 200-500 years there’s been a praiseworthy and concerted effort to synthesize the most important fundamentals of a field or topic, which has often been fairly successful in many of them. And then those...
by Gabriel Stein | Jul 24, 2018 | Productivity, Software
If you use Chrome, Trello, or a huge assortment of other technology products, this an excellent method for quickly capturing a single value of information. This is accomplished by setting up a “custom search engine” through Chrome, and then using the...
by Gabriel Stein | Jan 30, 2018 | Personal, Personal Development, Productivity
Multitasking – a fancy word for trying to cook 5 courses at the same time; something is going to get burned. Everyone’s brain is proven to have a deceleration and acceleration time when switching between tasks. This is known as “switching”. The...
