You will see that from afar all over town. On 10 November he posted a video of himself in the black suit he wears to drive for Uber he was standing tall by a rooftop pool in Beverly Hills. The Washington Monument? The best thing about it is its starkness. You are free to look at it from the outside and marvel at the snipers on the roof, but since 9/11, it has become obnoxiously difficult to get inside. The White House, for example, is not worth the trouble, sorry to say.
So one guiding principle: Don't visit things that look the same on TV as they do in person. That said, there are also a lot of red-faced, miserable tourists tromping through D.C., and you don't want to be one of them. There are more than two dozen free museums, so you can absorb culture the way it was meant to be experienced in short encounters in the midst of everyday life. Because buildings cannot by law be higher than the width of the street they front, you can always see the sky. It was designed by a Parisian, Pierre L'Enfant, and it still feels that way. Immediate action fuels a positive feedback loop that drives. Stop waiting for perfect conditions to launch a great project. Check email in the afternoon so you protect the peak energy hours of your mornings for your best work. Here are 21 tips to get you to your best productivity.
This is a city you can walk across, with wide-open avenues, front porches, old neighborhoods and river views. I wanted to help you create explosive productivity so you get big things done (and make your life matter). It is most of all an earnest place.īut of all the places I have lived, none has the accidental loveliness of D.C. It is a city people visit to lodge a complaint, to learn something or to stare at monuments to power and loss. I am not going to argue that Washington, D.C., is a fun place.