The Sunday Summary: Curiosity, postscripts, unbalanced lives, and your Focus Friend

Here’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful!

Blog posts from the past week

• Curiosity is worthless without honesty.
• Postscripts are popular. “Voegele found that 90% of readers stopped to read a PS on a letter, and that if they did, they read it word for word.”
• Notes from “Day Trading Attention” by Gary Vaynerchuk. “Figure out where underpriced attention is and learn how to effectively storytell in those places. But as I always say, you can’t just read about doing push-ups. Execution is the game, and that’s the hard part.”
• Unbalanced lives can lead to great things. “If you want a balanced life of equal portions of work, personal, and family time, you might have to go to work for a big, successful company and hope you never get laid off. If you want to be remarkable and make a difference, you may be facing an unbalanced life and years of toil and sacrifice.”
• How to take advantage of LinkedIn’s secret lists feature. LinkedIn has a fantastic feature to build lists of people that you want to follow, but it’s quite hidden away.
• Borderline content (sadly) performs the best. When it comes to social media engagement, there is one type of content that almost always performs the best — it’s the content that’s almost a policy violation, but not quite.