signal

Most things don't matter. A few do. This month hammered that home for me.

The world's full of noise. Gossip. Office politics. Social media arguments. Meetings that should've been emails (for real). I got caught up in some of it. It felt important at the time. It wasn't.

What mattered was the signal. The real work. The stuff that actually moved the needle.

Signal, I've learned, is quiet. It's me, alone, plugging away at hard problems. It's the small wins that add up. It's the one email that opens doors. It's the persistent follow-ups that finally land a big speaker.

Noise? It's loud. It's people talking about doing things instead of doing them. It feels urgent. But that urgency is usually fake. Real progress, I've found, happens slowly.

The tricky part is telling them apart. Noise is sneaky af. It masquerades as signal. It demands attention. Creates FOMO. I've fallen for it more times than I'd like to admit.

But every time I give in, I'm just spinning my wheels. While I'm distracted, others are making real progress.

The people I admire most? They're very good at ignoring noise. They don't get sucked into every drama. They don't stress about who's saying what. They just work.

It's not easy. Noise is addictive. It makes you feel important. In-the-know. But it's empty calories :/

Signal is harder. Often boring. Usually lonely. But it's the only thing that matters in the long run.

So how am I trying to find a signal? I look for what makes me uncomfortable. What scares me a little. What feels like it might be a waste of time, but also might change everything.

That's where the good stuff happens. That's how I landed some wins this month that looked impossible at first :)

Ignoring noise. Amplifying signal. It's a daily grind. But it's how you win