Rootz's Blog

You can be obsessed with podcasts. You can listen to them every day, while you’re driving, while you shower, while you run. But that might not be a good idea. There’s a limit to how much information your brain can take in and a much lower limit of how much of that information you can apply to your life——can actually remember and use. So this post is about why I quit podcasts. Not forever, and I might listen to an episode of Hello Internet every now and then, but the obsessive, mega-consumption of podcasts that was my life for the past few months is over. I decided that I’ve learned the most important things that podcasts could teach me, and now it’s time to apply what I’ve learned instead of trying to learn more. The lesson is simple: Don’t wait. Don’t waste your time. Instead, do. Chase Jarvis says it best in his video “Stop Planning. Start Doing.” The entire message of the video, the message that I kept hearing, over and over, from everyone from Tony Robins to Neil Gaiman,...

Seth Godin starts April 17th's (2017) post like this: “A quick look at Yelp reviews will show you that NY restaurants are not quite as good as those in some suburbs. This, of course, makes no sense. New York is insanely competitive, with a ton of turnover and a very demanding audience. A fast casual restaurant in Shaker Heights can coast for a long time, because... it's better than the alternatives.” Then he moves on to his point about marketing. But the idea he outlines in the first two paragraphs is the one clearly stated in the title: Compared to What? And here's my elaboration on it. . . The reason that restaurants in NYC get lower reviews than their suburb competitors (even though the city places are clearly better, as evidenced by the competition around them and the prices they charge) is because the demands placed on those restaurants are higher than those placed on restaurants in the suburbs . People who eat in the city expect more for what they’re...