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For instance: If you have a job, the single point of failure is your boss. Your security comes down to a single person or entity.
But what if two vice presidents and several managers above you at your job are internal fans of your work? You’d be:
- More likely to be spared in layoffs
- Able to switch departments if something happened to your role
nathanbarry.com • The Audience Shortcut: How the Right People Paying Attention Changes Everything
To avoid impulsively “just shipping it,” he introduces deliberate friction through cooldown periods when reviewing designs or providing feedback. This intentional pause allows ideas to mature, fostering more thoughtful and meaningful responses.
every.to • Sailing Against the Current of Frictionless AI
Research shows prisons in the United States run smoother with gangs than without them.
Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
Do we study exceptions or do we study the main body of behaviour?
Eugenia Cheng • How to Bake Pi
The process of imagination is a fun and creative process. The more enjoyment you can put into it, the better.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
Processes and values define how resources—many of which can be bought and sold, hired and fired—are combined to create value.
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
Ronald Coase explained decades ago that firms exist because they reduce the "costs of using the price mechanism." Subscription pricing is the software equivalent — it eliminates per-transaction negotiation, measurement, and verification costs. Per-task or per-outcome pricing reintroduces all three. Every "outcome" must be defined, measured,
... See moreEvan Armstrong • Don’t Sell the Work
Accurate intuition, the intuition that Holmes possesses, is of necessity based on training, hours and hours of
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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Dual Components of Risk: o Bessent defines risk as a combination of two factors: ▪ Probability: The likelihood that an adverse event or outcome will occur.
▪ Severity: The magnitude of the potential loss or negative impact if the event occurs.