Scott H. Young Blog
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Hi! I'm Scott H Young. I'm a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, podcast host, computer programmer, and avid reader. Since 2006, I've published weekly essays on this website to help people like you learn and think better. The theme of posts ranges from productivity to learning to the meaning of life.
Scott H. Young Blog
6h ago
Cal Newport and I are opening our Life of Focus course for a new session next week. Before we do, I’m sharing some lessons this week on how you can focus better in your work and life. Stay tuned! I think about my life as a series of projects. I think you should, too. Projects […]
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Scott H. Young Blog
5d ago
Looking to eat better? Here's some books to add to your shelf that helped me!
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Scott H. Young Blog
1w ago
I’m writing this on the first day of the fourth month in my year-long foundations project. The focus for this month is on food. See here for my previous months focusing on fitness, productivity and money. What we eat is a central foundation in life. Food provides the energy we use to live. It is […]
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Scott H. Young Blog
2w ago
I’m now rounding out the third month in my year-long project to improve my foundations.
This month’s focus was money. In particular, the keystone habit I asked students of my course to work on this month was setting up a system to track their expenses and reviewing it at least monthly. Monthly expense tracking has […]
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Scott H. Young Blog
1M ago
Want to be better with money? Here are ten books + the one-minute summary of what you need to know.
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Scott H. Young Blog
1M ago
A quick recap of my best writing in 2024.
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Scott H. Young Blog
1M ago
Money is the third month of my Foundations project. Read about my plans for improving my personal finances, and how I got to where I am today.
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Scott H. Young Blog
1M ago
As might be expected given my renewed focus on productivity, I was pretty productive this month—especially at home, which was a bit of a weakness in my old system.
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Scott H. Young Blog
2M ago
Insights from ten classic books on productivity, a continuing series on my year-long Foundations reading project.
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Scott H. Young Blog
2M ago
Some reflections on the value of learning multiple languages. Is it worth the hype?
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