You have an agenda, but you don’t pay attention to it

Especially if you are trying to learn while working full-time. It is easy to let your learning drag on and on if you don’t have any external pressure pushing you. So you need to create internal pressure. 

Your goal should be simple and quantitative. You should do enough res...

• Most of society seems to have taken it as a commandment that one must know about every single current event, watch every episode of a critically acclaimed series, follow the news regularly, etc.
• But where is the evidence that this is actually necessary? How much more time, energy, an...

• Front Stage. The tasks for which you’re hired and paid. The key functions, primary deliverables, the line items on your performance review. If it delivers the results for which your boss and/or customers are paying you, that’s Front Stage work.
• Back Stage. ...