Monday Morning Coffee

In continuation of my “easy win” posts in order to catch up for the new year, I thought it might be interesting to some to see what my daily schedule is, and how it might compare to the average person. Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2022/10/11/my-daily-routine/  Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Discord: https://discord.gg/bpDMAp8JUF   Twitter: https://...

A while back I found a link to a website which described 99 Questions to Complete Your Examination of Conscience . I thought the wide majority of the questions were rather insightful regardless of whether you were Catholic or not. I’ve decided to go through and repurpose the ones I found the most fitting to the everyday person, rephrasing them to be more friendly to even the atheists among us. Ori...

I’ve come to the conclusion that there are two types of people in this world, two that are often ignorant of the other’s existence. They are the structure-seeking, and the structure-averse — those who make, and those who work. Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2021/06/21/those-who-make-and-those-who-work/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter...

Prestige is something that tempts us all. A good job, a good house, a good car — they are signals, signals to others that we’ve seen success and we know what we’re doing. But how did they originate, and why have we become so addicted to them? Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2021/06/07/the-prestige-myth-providing-structure-to-structureless-forms/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-rob...

After going back and forth with it for some time, I recently got back into taking cold showers in the morning. On one hand, they’re unpleasant. On the other, they have a variety of health benefits, both physical and mental. But perhaps no benefit of cold showers I find bigger than that of momentum. Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2021/05/31/momentum-and-the-value-of-cold-showers/ Ch...

Honor and glory are seen now as archaic concepts from history. But if honor and glory still exists now, what does it look like? Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2021/05/24/honor-and-glory/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/astukari Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astukari/

My number one prediction for the 2020s is that education will end. Not education in general, of course, but certainly education as we know it. Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2020/06/08/the-end-of-education/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/astukari Instagram: https://www.ins...

There are some people that I hear on videos or otherwise read about, and think Why the hell did they get so dumb? What happened? . These aren’t the traditional morons, no — these are the people who made sweeping, revolutionary changes in their industry or are otherwise considered geniuses of their craft, who have gone on to a different venture only to sod the whole thing up. This event is what I’d...

Most of us know how biological evolution works; good old Darwinian science, natural selection, etc. etc. But, in the modern age, our societies transform and evolve at a much faster rate than any possible mutation. So, why is that? Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2020/06/22/biological-evolution-cultural-evolution/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the...

When we think of productivity, we typically think about machines, or automation, or efficiency planning. But can you get to a higher level of productivity using nothing but people? Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2020/06/29/people-productivity/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.co...

When we want to understand the success of a product launch, we use KPIs — key performance indicators — to figure out what went right and what went wrong. But, what if we want to understand the success of our lives? What indicators do we use? Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2020/07/27/managing-your-personal-kpis/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the n...

If you’re in the business of business, you’ve probably been knocked on the head at least a thousand times about how networking is vital for your career. Well, I’ve got bad news: you’ve been lied to. Networking doesn’t work. Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2020/09/07/why-you-shouldnt-network/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://as...

So this is not the sort of topic I dive into often. Perhaps some of my blog posts wax on the philosophical, but I try to stay away from the large abstractions that philosophy can create. So, why am I choosing now to talk about relative morality? Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2020/09/14/on-relative-morality/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the news...

There are many different structures to art, whether it be music, film, games, or otherwise. But to an artist, each art form can have its own use — either as inspiration, or as education. Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2021/03/22/art-as-inspiration-art-as-education/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.substack.com/ Twitt...

A while back I was checking out some models that free to play games used to gain revenue. I realized that, to an extent, virtually all these models could be used for apps — but no one was trying it. Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2021/03/29/free-to-play-models-for-saas-services/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.subst...

In the internet age, widespread witch hunting and social media monitoring makes it less and less likely to recover from even a simple mistake. Or does it? Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2021/04/12/making-mistakes-post-internet/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/astukari Insta...

Technology tends to have a remarkably short half-life. New innovations are made almost on a daily basis. So how do you protect yourself against the time decay of tech? Well, you focus on something else — taste. Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2021/04/19/taste-is-not-tech/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.substack.com/...

In this post, I’ll be talking about immortality. No, not biological immortality — but something I believe to be just as good, if not better. Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2021/04/26/immortality/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/astukari Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/...

A surprising amount of success can be chalked up to showing up, each and every day. So why do we not acknowledge it? Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2021/05/03/biases-against-consistency/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/astukari Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astukari/

The author Nassim Taleb describes the narrative fallacy as a belief that there is a story in everything, even though there is not. While the narrative fallacy can hurt you in some cases, it can also be used to your advantage. Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2021/05/10/the-mythical-self/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukar...

We talk a lot about what mental models work. But what about which ones don’t? Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2021/05/17/faulty-mental-models/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/astukari Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astukari/

A lot of people in this world are off, in some way. On the internet, we see them pass by in comment sections and social media posts. But who are they, and what becomes of them? Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2020/09/21/the-crazies/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/astukari I...

In this post, I’m going to talk about death. More specifically, I’m going to talk about how death has changed — how death influenced the way we see online, and how online has influenced the way we see death. Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2020/09/28/death-in-the-age-of-the-internet/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.s...

As the mental health crisis continues to loom over our heads, we’ve noticed an astonishing pattern emerge: diagnoses of anxiety disorders, particular social anxiety, are skyrocketing. Now the question is: why? Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2020/10/12/the-rise-of-anxiety/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.substack.com...

When people start creating, they believe in a reality that people will listen to them right out of the gate. But in order to last, you have to build a mindset to create simply for one person: yourself. Original blog post: https://jacob-robinson.com/2020/10/05/audience-of-one/ Check out the blog: https://jacob-robinson.com/blog/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://astukari.substack.com/ Twitter: h...