Hey, I'm Nicky!

Everyday, countless people start things off by preparing a todo-list - the things they’d like to get done that day.

Some people have a constant, never-ending todo-list they can’t imagine ever clearing through. I’ve been there.

It’s not even that rare for a todo-list to feel

Last November I heard Kamal Ravikant speak at Awesomnessfest and the energy and spirit of his work lead me to his book "Love Yourself like Your Life Depends on It".

My initial thought before reading the book, from the title alone, was: "Ehh, I'm not so sure about this..."

But

One of my passions is thinking deeply about how to learn new things. Why do I end up learning some things but not others? Is it innate skill? Is it interest? Is it the resources I randomly encounter or the support I get from others?

Recently I’ve whittled down

To be honest, I think I've written something about this before but it's so important that I'm doing it again:

Right now I am working on building out an extensive community for all the attendees who've signed up for Pioneer Nation. It often happens that as my mind gets carried

There's an app for OSX called SelfControl that allows you to completely block certain sites from your computer so you can't waste hours on Facebook, Reddit or whatever your favorite source of procrastination is.

There are a lot of similar apps out there and blocking sites outright is a highly

So often when doing something a bit challenging, we have resistance upfront and once we've gotten even just a few minutes in, everything starts to click. In that state of mind, it seems so strange to remember the fuss we put up moments earlier.

This is what I call the