Austinite 🌮 experimenting in my job and personal life, always optimizing for disproportional returns. :) This blog is a daily look into my mind. It's raw, honest, and reflective, and I post often.
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I've been making many brand-new friends here in Austin. Yay! Here's the deal. Once I get to know you, I let loose and I'm really quirky and goofy and wonderful. But before then, I get a bit scared and clam up. I looked up
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The other day [https://www.madisontaskett.com/dont-talk-do/] I talked about how WHEN I GET EXCITED ABOUT MY BUSINESS IDEA I TELL OTHER PEOPLE buttheylookatmeblanklyandthensaysomethingnicebecauseAmericansaren'tgoodatbeingdirect and it breaks my heart a little bit. So I condemned telling people about your ideas and suggested that just doing the stuff
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Recently I met someone who rigs the game so they never lose. It fascinates me to meet masters like this, who can anticipate every move their opponent makes and reliably checkmates them every single time. I both admire and envy them, and to be honest, this post is a little
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Since moving to Austin, my thoughts have been an unfurled ball of rainbow colored yarn, an un-contained explosion of vibrant emotions. My day-to-day is brighter than a makeup artist's highlight, and poetry spills out of my mouth like water from a fountain. I have the best daily routine,
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Lately I've had a few ideas for side hustles that get me EXCITED. AND WHEN I GET EXCITED I TELL PEOPLE SO THEY CAN BE EXCITED TOO. ...exceptnoonewasexcitedaboutmyideas. 🥺 It crushed me a little. But these people aren't my market anyway... so why am I telling them
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It's 1am. I've been out all night. I'm so tired it was a drag to even get ready for bed. But I'm here, under the covers in my pjs, typing on this blog. Because I'm committed. Rain or shine. 2pm
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The other day, I pondered if, in our heart of hearts, we've always known [https://www.madisontaskett.com/that-pivotal-moment/] what our purposes are. But then we get scared, and we pretend we don't know. We pretend so hard, that we actually believe ourselves. It goes in
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> I found that the dark jury of the deep had already decided for me. There it was, laid out and certain. It was like training for a race and preparing and finally being down at start with your spikes set in their holes. No choice then. You go when
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I've been so happy here in Austin! I think it's because my routine and lifestyle here kicks ass. My six daily joy triggers: * ☀️ sunshine * 🥬 healthy diet * 🧑🏼🤝🧑🏻 my people (friendly, high intelligence, high integrity) * 💪 exercise * 🌳 nature * 🌙 sleep environment (70 degrees, quiet, dark) Six simple ingredients. One happy
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Resulting bias is: our tendency to equate the quality of a decision with the quality of its outcome. For example, if you drive drunk and end up parking alongside the road to vomit and find $10,000, resulting bias says that you'll think that the driving drunk was
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This morning I grabbed breakfast tacos with a lively software engineer I met on twitter. The conversation was effortless and we had a ton in common. Then I drove home to find a couple of successful entrepreneurs hanging around the pool with my roomie. "How did you meet your
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“Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent [https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2359336] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This