Blog of Brian Crain. Regular short posts on crypto, entreneurship, productivity, meditation & more.
So I've been trying to write a blog post for the last 30 minutes. I'm sure I had five ideas that would have made for fine posts. I'd start writing, but then cut myself off. Not good enough. Maybe I should write something else. It's...
I've been aware of and fascinated by Urbit for a while. In 2017, Meher and I did an Epicenter podcast with Galen Wolfe-Pauly about Urbit. I recently listened to it again and it is great. I also bought a bunch of stars in 2018 and...
One of the nice things about the Christmas break was to have no meetings, no Slack. It created some space and silence that I very much needed. Over the next 30 days, starting tomorrow, I want to extend that and go deeper with it. And...
When it comes to interacting with emails, I am often falling into patterns that are dysfunctional. But I have also figured out patterns that feel smooth and efficient. In this post, I wanted to describe both of them. Dysfunctional Email My email inbox has a...
This is the 35th post of the year. I'm really happy that I've been writing regularly, especially in the last three months. To wrap up this year of writing, I grouped most of the posts by area below. Even though I write many posts quickly...