Brain Food: Work Hard In Silence

Excellence isn't about occasional brilliance - it's about consistent execution.

Smart people are uniquely vulnerable to mistaking complexity for insight.

An executive writes a ten-page memo that could be one. An engineer builds an intricate system when a simple one would perform better at half the cost. The consultant mesmerizes clients with frameworks that conceal rather than reveal. We attach prestige to what mystifies us. C... See more