Will Bench

Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive . This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras

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Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s late and longtime business partner, once said, “Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.

I remember a McKinsey women’s event where fifteen or twenty young consultants from the San Francisco office sat around a glossy oval table listening to a junior partner speak about her successful ascent. The topic turned to work-life balance, as it always did at such events, and she advised us as follows: If there is a household task where it... See more

Rebecca Solnit - “underneath the task of writing a particular piece is the general one of making a self who can make the work you are meant to make.” https://t.co/hfVXl0yIp2

From reading over 100 business books and running a startup for over a year, here's a 2-word summary of communication that might save you years of reading:

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It's not enough to say 'matcha is good', it's not a story until you say 'compared to coffee, matcha makes you consistently alert but not jittery'. It's not a story with... See more

Rory Sutherland on why group decision making is often worse than personal judgement https://t.co/Gj6CRLLF40