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Blogging (here) since 2005
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Changing Your Brain: Is it Possible to Rewire Your Brain?
I recently picked up a book by Moheb Constandi called Neuroplasticity. It was published by MIT Press in 2016 and I was mostly interested in reading about the current state of the science on the subject. Neuroplasticity is a general term that describes a number of...
Member+ or What Has Nate Been Up To?
We're running a special program called JumpStart for Spring 2019 Click here to view detailsWhat is a membership site? What is recurring revenue?It's been a while since I've done a life update. What am I working on? The answer lies above. Just over a year ago I shut...
Minimalists Revolt: Cal Newport on Saving our Digital Discourse
Last Monday I entered a wide corporate lobby with marbled floors and an imposing security desk. In midtown Manhattan on the second floor lies a kind of open floor plan tech campus home of Company. The backdrop of the event's stage were gilded age windows dramatically...
Interview with Molly Sonsteng Tapping into deep work and removing distractions while living a creative life
http://traffic.libsyn.com/natecooper/Molly_Sonsteng_v1a_-_61918_4.57_PM.mp3 In this episode of Cut Your Learning Curve I interviewed Molly Sonsteng. Listen to the episode her or subscribe on iTunes. Molly is a producer, project manager, and entrepreneur dedicated to...
The Edge of Tomorrow: Streaks, Failure & Learning How to Learn with Juvoni Beckford
In this episode of Cut Your Learning Curve, I speak with my friend Juvoni Beckford. Juvoni grew up in the Bronx. At a young age, Juvoni recognized the patterns that kept people from in his environment from reaching their full potential. Through a lot of hard work and...
Imposter Syndrome and Removing the Roadblocks
"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness." Thomas Carlyle I think about this quote a lot when I sit down to write. Or rather sometimes when I don't. It's because I struggle with what might be called writers block but is really just a special form...
Technomindfulness: The Art of Silence (Medium)
For the past several weeks I have been conducting an experiment on the relationship between myself and my phone. It is not a new device or anything super fancy. (It’s an iPhone 8 I believe). Each day, I prep my phone to manage how I want it to interrupt my day. I do...
Cut Your Learning Curve: Is Learning Problem Solving?
New Podcast! Cut Your Learning Curve: Hack Your Brain to Learn Skills, Increase Your Potential, and Get The Life You Want Available today! Subscribe now on iTunes or Google Play Is Learning Problem Solving? Over the past 7 years as I've been teaching people how to...
How to Learn Anything
One thing I’ve learned in my experience teaching adults is that we don’t often stop to ask ourselves when we have learned something. This is one reason I think that people tend to sign up to take a class. They want someone (hopefully an expert) to tell them that they...
Being Growth Mindset-Oriented Doesn’t Mean You are Always Happy
Carol Dweck, an accomplished psychologist and professor of psychology identified in her book Mindset two approaches to what I would call problem solving. There is the fixed mindset approach and a growth mindset approach. When confronted with a challenge, someone in...
Territorial versus Action Mindset
In the past few weeks as I've travelled back and forth between Los Angeles and New York, I've found myself in several conversations and activities centered around agency. While these different practices all have unique lexicons, whether it be through the wellness...
Blaming Ourselves for Poor Design
Do you want to change the world? It starts with stopping. You have to stop complaining. You have to stop looking for answers outside of yourself. You have to listen and pay attention to what you want and what you're capable of. Too often we feel simultaneously...
Are New Yorkers Inherently Mindful?
I like to think I resisted this a bit but I think I'm slowly coming to terms with being a digital nomad. I'm typing this while in the back of a Lyft which is taking me from Long Beach California to Santa Monica where I have set up shop for the Summer. When I was...
Comics Are Good for Learning Complex Things
I've spent the past ten years of my professional career in various aspects of adult, technology education. About midway between the start of my journey to now, came: Build Your Own Website. A comic book I collaborated on with my friend, the talented artist and...
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Seeing The Future of Tech in Mexico City
I came down to Mexico because I care about education. My friend Eme, trusted me to come to New York when I was hosting an event last November. He bought his ticket and jumped in and while here, he gave a wonderful and moving talk about Dev.f a school that he set up...
Brazil, Get Ready to Build your Website
My awesome publisher No Starch press sent me a couple copies of the Portuguese translation of Build Your Own Website last night. So neat to see this.
Roger Ebert’s Life The American Dream Itself
I am a midwestern son. There’s a sequence in the documentary ‘Life Itself’ that suggests that Roger Ebert styled himself as a Chicago journalist in an archetype of public figures like Studs Turkel. He was, for a time, hard drinking and hard living. Enjoying life in it’s ups and downs in a way that is both uniquely human and uniquely American. Seeing this film as I have now, in a time in life where for unrelated reasons, I’ve recently had to explain and often defend being both a New Yorker and American, it has given me pause to reflect on my midwestern-ness. It’s a claim I don’t often make about aspects of my personality and to say they are at best unsettled would perhaps be an understatement.