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Since we can’t improve our people-reading skills that much, we have to focus our efforts on making others more readable.

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:

1. More likely to be spared in layoffs


2. Able to switch departments if something happened to your role

Unfortunately, the most common way people organise their writing is by making plans. Although planning is almost universally recommended by study guides, it’s the equivalent of putting oneself on rails. Don’t make plans. Become an expert.

negative emotions are a call to action. When you feel them, it’s because you’re supposed to do something.

All that detail, but nothing that makes a difference to the task at hand—his choice of future flatmate.

Janitors can be behavioral scientists, if they start hacking on how to make men pee in the fucking urinal instead of on the floor (the real reason for urinal cakes: they’re just for target practice).

Wheat farming historically had a more seasonal rhythm with periods of relative quiet. Wheat is typically sown in the fall or spring and then mainly just left to grow with the rain. Aside from episodic weeding or guarding the fields, there was less continuous labor until harvest time. Harvest itself was a crunch period requiring many hands with

we’ve accomplished the task and saps the energy we need to realize it. More dreams now mean less achievement later.

“the semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering aspects.”