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Scott Adams writes:
... See moreIf you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths:
Become the best at one specific thing.
Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.
The first strategy is difficult to the
Andrew Chen • The Case Against Morning Yoga, Daily Routines, and Endless Meetings
The World of the Buyer
- Understand the concept of "sonder": each buyer is a world unto themselves.
- Avoid mistaking your limited perception of them for their full reality.
The Consultancy Business • 'Questions Are the Answer to Everything': Sales for Nice People With Martin Stellar
What are the sources that bring in the most visitors? Let’s see what channels bring consistent traffic. Look at the general channel groups, but also the specific sites that lead people to you – respectively, under Acquisition > Overview report and Acquisition > All Traffic > Source/Medium report.
Vassilena Valchanova • A Step-by-Step Guide for Content Marketing Analysis
Time Perception
- A 2013 study showed an animal's perception of time is related to its size.
- Researchers measured neural activity in 30+ species using flashing lights.
- They determined that if an animal can detect the blinking of light at higher frequencies, it indicates their ability to perceive time at finer resolutions.
- This is different from human
Evolutionary Ideas • Chapter 22: Brain Time | Chapter 23: Better the Devil You Know | Chapter 24: Time Flies When You’re Having Fun | Chapter 25: All’s Well That Ends Well | Chapter 26: New Eyes | a Summary of Evolutionary Ideas | End Credits
Some things aren't designed around goals at all. Instead, they are about values, or exploration according to values. I'll call those exploratory spaces.
Spaces aren't goal-driven. You know something is a space if you don't want it to be over quickly. You'd accelerate an Amazon purchase, or an uber ride, or an organizational goal. The things you do
... See moreJoe Edelman • Funnels, Tubes, and Spaces
Learning past theories and examples prevents you from reinventing the wheel or from making the same mistakes as others who came before you. But those past theories and examples can't tell you what action to take in any particular situation. The past theories and examples do not accompany you onto the battlefield. For von Clausewitz, only coup
... See moreWilliam Duggan • Strategic Intuition
Steven Johnson, who wrote an insightful book about how people in science and in general come up with genuine new ideas, calls it the “slow hunch.”