Jacob Schnee

If there is a self-improvement junkie, I am he. I don’t feel great about admitting it, but there it is. Self-awareness, like courage, is...

Read books. Study ideas. Plan ahead. These are all good ways to get smarter. But they all miss a critical aspect of brain health. Don't...

The first thing I learned when I began weightlifting back in high school was this: Form is everything. It doesn't matter how goofy or...

Sitting on the train in my morning commute in, I was gripped by our paradoxical inheritance as a people. As humans, we have a near...

Beware those who use time spent as a proxy for skill or credentials. It's the difference between the guy who has gained 12 years of...

As James Clear says in his new book, Atomic Habits: Prevailing wisdom claims that the best way to achieve what we want in life—getting...

I'll never know why everyone doesn't have a screen protector on their smartphone. It's immensely cheap. It generally costs something like...

Using Answer the Public, here are some good content topics for those in the financial industry today: what finance means - (1,600/month)...

Or, the alchemy of putting someone else's needs first. For years now, news has been building about a real issue here in America: epidemic...

Social media is a mixed bag. We all know the story and the dangers by now: Posts are overly curated to the brink of falsehood, and...

"Communicate" comes from the Latin communicare - to share, or to make something common. Over the long term, sharing can't happen without...

There is no replacement for it.

When you're focused on creating something. When you're focused at 8am, at 12am, and at 4pm (and especially at 7pm, and 9pm). I used to...

Have you ever been caught on a highway driving behind a large truck during a rainy day? A moderately rainy day - somewhere between a soft...

Those who know me know how strongly I believe in learning how to learn. There are few investments you can make as effective as investing...

Ash and I tried out Eastland Sushi today. New parents: Never underestimate the power of the early dinner. When it's 6pm and you've got...

Life is much better when you surprise yourself. It's why I look to do things I haven't done before, and why I enjoy meeting new people,...

It was a throwaway line said in jest, sure, but Agent J was onto something here. Growing up in New York City, I learned a bit about so...

I'm thankful to grow up at a time when virtually any information available is available instantly, to me and anyone with a computer or...

I recently started working to brown noise. On and off over the last few years, I'd used services like Noisli and a soft murmur. I...