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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a07df3-737c-73d3-adc5-1ad79372bc7e", "title": "40 things that made me who I am (for my 40th birthday)", "url": "https://jason.energy/40-for-40/", "published_at": "2025-06-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737c-73d3-adc5-1ad793d0d369", "title": "A Year of Steady Progress Is More Than I Expected", "url": "https://jason.energy/year-of-progress/", "published_at": "2024-11-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96e54d73d0", "title": "Stop Worrying About Engagement & Other Good Advice I Ignored", "url": "https://jason.energy/content-consistency-templates/", "published_at": "2023-03-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96e5ce15fd", "title": "Your Job Doesn’t Matter (and That’s Great News)", "url": "https://jason.energy/your-job-doesnt-matter/", "published_at": "2023-03-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96e68285c4", "title": "Constant, gentle pressure", "url": "https://jason.energy/constant-gentle-pressure/", "published_at": "2022-12-27T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96e720b6ad", "title": "The Fastest Way to Grow is to Share Your Work", "url": "https://jason.energy/share-your-work/", "published_at": "2022-12-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96e764f898", "title": "Show Up & Do The Work", "url": "https://jason.energy/show-up-do-the-work/", "published_at": "2022-12-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96e7d09451", "title": "Turn 1 piece of dev content into 10+ — use the buffalo stick", "url": "https://jason.energy/effective-devrel-buffalo-stick/", "published_at": "2022-08-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96e890f8f4", "title": "Please stop multitasking. I’m begging you. Please.", "url": "https://jason.energy/context-switching/", "published_at": "2022-07-16T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96e935547f", "title": "Be weird & fun (as a business strategy)", "url": "https://jason.energy/weird-fun-business-strategy/", "published_at": "2022-05-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96e9ff3deb", "title": "Output vs. Outcome", "url": "https://jason.energy/output-vs-outcome/", "published_at": "2022-03-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96ea9fec4a", "title": "Please stop checking Slack and email during vacation.", "url": "https://jason.energy/disconnect-on-vacation/", "published_at": "2022-01-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96eb8309fe", "title": "The defaults matter", "url": "https://jason.energy/defaults-matter/", "published_at": "2021-05-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96ebc9df52", "title": "Intention vs. Drift", "url": "https://jason.energy/intention-vs-drift/", "published_at": "2021-03-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96ecbd69b9", "title": "Don’t Be Nice. Be Kind.", "url": "https://jason.energy/be-kind/", "published_at": "2021-03-19T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96ecf1db77", "title": "How to Draw a Map to a More Fulfilling Career", "url": "https://jason.energy/career-fulfillment-matrix/", "published_at": "2021-03-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96ed868aab", "title": "A career is a pie-eating contest & the prize for winning is more pie", "url": "https://jason.energy/more-pie/", "published_at": "2021-01-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96eddf288c", "title": "Convince your team to learn fast and try not to make a mess", "url": "https://jason.energy/convince-the-team/", "published_at": "2021-01-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96edfc288f", "title": "Yeet. Delete. 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Here’s what I learned.", "url": "https://jason.energy/two-years-in-airbnbs/", "published_at": "2017-02-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96f96046a2", "title": "How I’m Looking at My Past to Improve My Future", "url": "https://jason.energy/2016-personal-retrospective/", "published_at": "2017-01-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96f9b58e5d", "title": "Only Keep Score Against Yourself", "url": "https://jason.energy/keeping-score/", "published_at": "2016-12-11T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96fa6cad3c", "title": "Why you should never feel guilty about “wasting time”.", "url": "https://jason.energy/wasted-time/", "published_at": "2016-09-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96fad8403d", "title": "How to Have Great Ideas: Write Everything Down", "url": "https://jason.energy/write-everything-down/", "published_at": "2016-09-16T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96fba52d30", "title": "Why do I always feel disappointed after I get something I want?", "url": "https://jason.energy/achievement-vs-fulfillment/", "published_at": "2016-09-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96fc450c0a", "title": "Stop Glossing Over the Good Stuff: How to Be More Positive", "url": "https://jason.energy/how-to-be-positive/", "published_at": "2016-09-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96fcb4d555", "title": "The Baseline: How to Create Long-Term Happiness", "url": "https://jason.energy/baseline/", "published_at": "2016-08-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96fd1c473b", "title": "Balance in Your First Year of Business", "url": "https://jason.energy/balance-for-first-year-entrepreneurs/", "published_at": "2016-08-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f96fe0ae2b7", "title": "Are you working in your “Goldilocks Zone”?", "url": "https://jason.energy/goldilocks-zone-avoid-burnout/", "published_at": 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"01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f97074a05ea", "title": "Take a Break", "url": "https://jason.energy/better-productivity-work-less/", "published_at": "2014-08-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f970795ea62", "title": "Your Taste Doesn’t Matter", "url": "https://jason.energy/taste-doesnt-matter/", "published_at": "2014-03-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f97087582cd", "title": "A Guide to Drinking for Adults", "url": "https://jason.energy/how-to-drink/", "published_at": "2014-01-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f9708a24d4e", "title": "It’s All Jazz", "url": "https://jason.energy/jazz/", "published_at": "2014-01-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df3-737d-713d-8921-9f97095b6ec7", "title": "See the Tree Coming", "url": "https://jason.energy/see-tree-coming/", "published_at": "2014-01-06T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2025

40 things that made me who I am (for my 40th birthday)original ↗
26 Jun 2025

2024

A Year of Steady Progress Is More Than I Expectedoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2024

2023

Stop Worrying About Engagement & Other Good Advice I Ignoredoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2023
Your Job Doesn’t Matter (and That’s Great News)original ↗
10 Mar 2023

2022

Constant, gentle pressureoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2022
The Fastest Way to Grow is to Share Your Workoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2022
Show Up & Do The Workoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2022
Turn 1 piece of dev content into 10+ — use the buffalo stickoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2022
Please stop multitasking. I’m begging you. Please.original ↗
16 Jul 2022
Be weird & fun (as a business strategy)original ↗
25 May 2022
Output vs. Outcomeoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2022
Please stop checking Slack and email during vacation.original ↗
10 Jan 2022

2021

The defaults matteroriginal ↗
2 May 2021
Intention vs. Driftoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2021
Don’t Be Nice. Be Kind.original ↗
19 Mar 2021
How to Draw a Map to a More Fulfilling Careeroriginal ↗
9 Mar 2021
A career is a pie-eating contest & the prize for winning is more pieoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2021
Convince your team to learn fast and try not to make a messoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2021
Yeet. Delete. Repeat.original ↗
7 Jan 2021

2020

Squishy vs. Load-Bearing Projects (or: How Not to Flatten Innovation)original ↗
30 Dec 2020
Creating Great Content Is a Process, Not a Projectoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2020
How to Build a Consistent Content Creation Habitoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2020
Draw the Box Smalleroriginal ↗
27 Apr 2020
Toolkits Over Checklistsoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2020
The problem with grindingoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2020
Get the results you want more often by reducing frictionoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2020
2019 Personal Retrospective: Measuring progress and setting goalsoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2020

2019

Planning vs. Execution: How much planning is too much?original ↗
30 Dec 2019
What Are You Optimizing For?original ↗
17 Nov 2019
First, Get Ready: What Mise En Place Teaches Us About... Everythingoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2019
The Ugly Other Half of Creativityoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2019
Personal Retrospective: Q1 2019original ↗
24 Apr 2019
The Importance of Setting Good Expectationsoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2019
Automation + Control: Progressive Disclosure of Complexityoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2019
Yak Shaving: On Doing the Work Before the Workoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2019

2018

2018 in Review: How I’m Structuring Goals to Make 2019 My Best Year Yetoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2018
Level Setting: Solve the Right Problem at the Right Timeoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2018
Dirt Floors: How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Solve the Real Problemoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2018
Find the Whyoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2018
2017 Retrospectiveoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2018

2017

Make the Right Thing the Easy Thing: Better Choices by Defaultoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2017
I spent 2 years living abroad in Airbnbs. Here’s what I learned.original ↗
7 Feb 2017
How I’m Looking at My Past to Improve My Futureoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2017

2016

Only Keep Score Against Yourselforiginal ↗
11 Dec 2016
Why you should never feel guilty about “wasting time”.original ↗
28 Sept 2016
How to Have Great Ideas: Write Everything Downoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2016
Why do I always feel disappointed after I get something I want?original ↗
9 Sept 2016
Stop Glossing Over the Good Stuff: How to Be More Positiveoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2016
The Baseline: How to Create Long-Term Happinessoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2016
Balance in Your First Year of Businessoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2016
Are you working in your “Goldilocks Zone”?original ↗
12 Jul 2016

2015

Why Can’t I Stay Consistent?original ↗
19 Nov 2015
Navigating the Tourist Traporiginal ↗
22 Jun 2015
Get More Done Faster: Scheduling for Maximum Productivityoriginal ↗
7 May 2015
Do More with Less: Drop Dead Physical & Psychological Weightoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2015
Why We Work: Are We Just Working for Work’s Sake?original ↗
2 Apr 2015
Measure on Results, Not Time Spentoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2015
Remote Work Is a Win for Everyoneoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2015
Overtime: How to Lose Your Employees and Kill Your Businessoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2015
How to Know If You’ve Joined a Cultoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2015
Shitty First Draftoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2015

2014

Leavingoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2014
Wizards and Assholesoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2014
The Stories We Tell Ourselvesoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2014
Do Men Have Best Friends?original ↗
27 Aug 2014
Take Away Its Poweroriginal ↗
25 Aug 2014
Take a Breakoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2014
Your Taste Doesn’t Matteroriginal ↗
31 Mar 2014
A Guide to Drinking for Adultsoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2014
It’s All Jazzoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2014
See the Tree Comingoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2014