Author: Steve Kamb

November 17, 2025

Why You Should Stop Setting Goals and Create Experiments Instead

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of crossing paths with author and neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff when she visited Nashville to do her TEDx talk. Le Cunff is…
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October 27, 2025

Trying to Make Something Beautiful Out of Something Broken

(I tell this story with a fun video over my new YouTube channel, let me know what you think! The essay continues below) The year was 2015. It was the…
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October 21, 2025

Broken Refrigerators & the Fight for Simplicity

“You’ve got to be f***ing kidding me!” You might be wondering why I uttered a loud F-bomb while standing in my underwear in my kitchen at 6AM. It’s because technology…
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October 6, 2025

What’s the Lie You Tell Yourself? Here’s Mine:

What’s the lie you tell yourself? We all do it. The thing we say is important to us. Or why we’re doing something. But deep down, we know we’re not…
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September 19, 2025

The Courage to Be Seen Learning

I recently found a tiny bit of optimism in the unlikeliest of places. I was in a coffee shop near Boston Common (while on a 2-week adventure exploring the city). …
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September 9, 2025

The Best Career Advice I’ve Ever Heard: The Glass Cannon Strategy

(updated 9/8/25) In the summer of 2024, the United States Men’s Gymnastics team broke a long medal drought and won the bronze medal at the Summer Olympics in Paris. The…
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September 8, 2025

A Simple Life Hack that Works: This is Only a Test

I spend most of my day trying to outsmart my brain. You see, my brain is very talented at getting me to NOT do things that are good for me,…
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September 2, 2025

How to Read More Books

A recent headline has been bouncing around the internet: reading books for fun is down 40% over the past 20 years. That’s as unsurprising as it is sad. Because books…
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August 25, 2025

I Got to Say Goodbye: Practical Musings on Mortality

On Friday August 15th, my grandma passed away peacefully in her sleep at the age of 95. I had driven to Massachusetts a few days earlier, and my father and…
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August 10, 2025

Keep Changing, You Just Get More Who You Really Are

“Well, it’s easy. I just threw away all the parts that weren’t ‘Steve.’” I had been sitting with my friend Josh Kaufman in Colorado. I was struggling to make progress…
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