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Opportunity Accelerators (Your Rocket Fuel):
• The connector who hosts private dinners where deals happen
• The decision-maker who controls the budget for your dream client
• The leader two levels above you is looking for someone with your skills
• The gatekeeper who decides who gets on stage at your industry’s main event
nathanbarry.com • The Audience Shortcut: How the Right People Paying Attention Changes Everything
solution that may no longer work. Their skill was in avoiding the same old patterns. In the wicked world, with ill-defined challenges and few rigid rules, range can be a life hack.
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
over $75,000 a year—big raises and annual bonuses won’t actually improve their productivity or performance. After that basic-needs line is crossed, employees want intrinsic rewards. They want to be in control of their own time (autonomy), they want to work on projects that interest them (curiosity/passion), and they want to work on projects that
... See moreSteven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
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To support the mechanisation of mail in the 1950s, the UK needed a postal coding system that could not only divide the country into small areas but also be read by a computer and understood by a postman, all the while allowing a maximum number of permutations. As easy as that.
Sam Tatam • Evolutionary Ideas
Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce—except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy.
Will Durant • The Lessons of History
The first sanity check for numeric data is whether the magnitude matters. Do
Alice Zheng, Amanda Casari • Feature Engineering for Machine Learning
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Before a rule is properly broken first it must be properly learned.
Bruno De Campos • River Through the Heart
“What would you like me to do?” This forces them to consider options and think instead of just vent.
Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
think about how they relate to what is relevant for your own research, thinking or interests.