Predicting The Future… Writing Topics!

here’s nothing harder to do than to carry through on a good idea. So, in one of the most self-referential areas of MikeLev.in, I use this page to give a preview of what you will find here, PLUS create self-discipline through commitment and consistency.

Creativity / Inspiration / Motivation

  • The True Power of the Artist in the Information Age, and How to Seize It
  • How to Record & Utilize Thoughts / Idea Capture / List Reduction
  • Wanting To Do the Work-at-hand More Than Anything Else in Life
  • Thinking Exercises That Make All The Difference / Forming Habits
  • Thinking & Doing In the Information Age / The Advantageous Thin-line
  • The Starving Artist Effect / Intensity and Recovery / A Healthy Heart
  • Sources of Inspiration / External Stimuli / Vision Quests / Grounding
  • Self-discipline / Visualization / Fighting Laziness / Really Wanting It

Strategy / Patterns / Effectiveness

  • Easily Memorized “One-Page” Plans / The Usefulness of Rattling it Off
  • The Advantage of True Focus Time / Humans Don’t Multi-task Well
  • Finding Blind Spots / Traditional vs. Non-traditional / Uncovering Advantage
  • Divvying Out Time-slices / Working on Multiple Fronts
  • How Organizing Information Is at The Heart of Everything Human
  • Small-Wins Build Momentum /Success Begets Success / Compounding Returns
  • Understanding Peoples’ Motivations / The Art of Lightly Steam-rolling
  • Individuals who Systematized & Packaged Strategy / Robert Cialdini / Sun Tzu
  • Doing it “For the Man” vs. Yourself / Peter Drucker-style Knowledge Workers
  • You can’t make everyone happy. Decide who to let down, and who to let down HARD.

Tools / Risk / RISC

  • The Eternal Battle Between Complexity & Simplicity / Experts vs. Beginners
  • Complexity Is a Weapon to Fortify the Incumbent / How Not to Be Fooled
  • Mastery of Tools and Spontaneous Expertise / The Math-Art-Music Connection / Deliberate Choice / Becoming That Expert / 10,000 Hours
  • Choosing Tools / Safe-guarding Against Obsolescence / >20 Year Lifespan
  • Proprietary Vs. Open Source / Apple Vs. Google / It “Just Working” vs. The Necessity to Hack / The “Your Time is Worth Something” Trade-off
  • Open Source as Weapon of Disruption / Getting With The Google Program
  • How to Reboot Society / Every Radio Receiver is Also a Transmitter / Building Logic Gates from Anything
  • How to Get (and Give Your Child) the “Tools Advantage” Early in Life

The Future

  • The Obvious “Change-Everything” Technologies / Inevitabilities
  • Mesh-networking / Ad Hoc Internets / Whack-a-mole Information
  • Water is an Infinitely Renewable Resource / Free Energy is The Trick
  • Efficient Solar-cells & Super-conductivity / Who Pays for That? The Sun!
  • Inherent Biases Resulting from Past Innovations / Getting Over Them
  • Sub-vocalization and Mind-reading User Interfaces / Soft-interfaces vs. Implants
  • Micro-manufacturing / Rapid Prototyping Gets Real / Desktop Fabricators
  • Strange Combinations: Mesh-networking + Mind-reading UIs + Fabricators
  • Whether or Not the Spooky-force Pans Out / Instantaneous Communication
  • The Count-down to Armageddon / DRM as a Survival Imperative / Super-police
  • The First Computer Program That’s “Just Creative Enough”… the Singularity
  • Infinite Supply, Infinite Choice, Infinite Space / The Race Against the Singularity Shock-wave / Homesteading

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