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Comment on The Perfect Morning Routine (Backed by Science) by Taylor Pearson

Thank you Fancy!

I feel very strongly that the one-size-fits-all-wake-up-at-5am model is rubbish so glad to offer some other ways to approach it!

Comment on The Perfect Morning Routine (Backed by Science) by Fancy Ruff-Wagner

I think this is the best article on Morning Routines I’ve ever read. Your point that there is no one right morning routine for everyone, but there is a right morning routine for each person is spot on. As a person whose best brain time doesn’t even start until 11 am (and can go on strong until 8 pm or so), I’ve found much of the other advice about morning routines to not fit me. Thank you for this.

Comment on The Perfect Morning Routine (Backed by Science) by Taylor Pearson

I read that and was surprised as well. I definitely find it preferable but I imagined that I was the exception rather than the rule. To our breafast-less future

Comment on The Perfect Morning Routine (Backed by Science) by Taylor Pearson

Hey Leon,

Awesome to here it was helpful. Let me know how you come with it.

Comment on The Perfect Morning Routine (Backed by Science) by Vic Dorfman

Thanks for putting this together, Tayor. It’s great!

When I read your point about breakfast it reminded me of another article I recently read by Tim Ferriss in which he shares the 1st chapter of his new book, Tools of Titans.

From interviewing high performers across many fields he observed that many of the men (but not the women) skip breakfast entirely.

I’ve found this consistent with my own intermittent fasting experiences. It seems that not eating keeps the mind sharp.

But then again I kn...

Comment on The Perfect Morning Routine (Backed by Science) by Leon L

Well Taylor, you did it again. Exceed my expectations! This is definitely the most well rounded, in-depth and beginner-friendly article on morning routines on the interwebs right now. Absolutely great content! Enough flattery for now. Keep it up man!

Comment on How to Get Lucky: Focus On The Fat Tails by Marco

Just found this gem while cleaning out my inbox.

“It’s easy to see how spending $250 on ads can return the money; it’s much harder to see how hosting dinners pays off.”

Would you say that it is actually not that hard too see how hosting dinner COULD pay off, but people just don’t actually BELIEVE that it would and therefore forgo dinner?

Also, do you see any risk in fetishizing 80/20 analysis like NNT says acadamdia does for the bell-curve?

Brilliant article anyway,
Marc.

Comment on The Commoditization of Credentialism: Why MBAs and JDs Can’t Get Jobs by Taylor Pearson

Hey Leon,

Thanks for the kind words. You made my day :).

Hope you enjoyed the gin and tonic and drop me an email (https://taylorpearson.me/) to let me know what the professor said. I’m curious if s/he will agree…

Comment on The Commoditization of Credentialism: Why MBAs and JDs Can’t Get Jobs by Leon L

Hey Taylor, I am a long time reader and silent supporter of your work! I thought it is about time to let you know that I admire you and what you do. Especially this article is very interesting and relevant in my opinion.

I am sitting in my apartment in Singapore right now, sipping on a gin & tonic, waiting for the clubs to open, so me and my roomies can go out. Life is great here in Singapore, however alcohol is expensive. So… Leon get to the point, well, I recently got an assignment from on...

Comment on Speed of Implementation and The Law of Shitty Click Throughs by Taylor Pearson

Hey Joyce,

That’s interesting. I’m mostly bullish on email (though not banner ads).

I think there’s some subtleties here that I didn’t manage to tease out in this article between the Lindy effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect) and first mover advantage.

The people who succeed seem to straddle the two well. E.g. People who built up huge FB followings and moved those followers onto email did really well. Those who kept those followings only on FB have slowly seen their reach disa...