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Key insight: Just a handful of the right people paying attention to your work can transform your career security and opportunities.
nathanbarry.com • The Audience Shortcut: How the Right People Paying Attention Changes Everything
When Beijing’s economic planners do talk about consumption, they tend to do so in relation to industrial aims. In its brief discussion of the subject, the current five-year plan states that consumption should be steered specifically toward goods that align with Beijing’s industrial priorities: automobiles, electronics, digital products, and smart
... See moreZongyuan Zoe Liu • China’s Real Economic Crisis
Illusion of Consumer Choice in China's E-Commerce Landscape: The e-commerce landscape in China presents consumers with a vast array of products and services, creating an impression of abundant choice. However, this perception is often misleading, as a few large companies dominate the market, shaping consumer preferences and limiting true diversity. As a result, many consumers may unknowingly participate in a system that prioritizes the interests of these dominant players over genuine choice.
Times change. Circumstances change. That original knowledge base must always be updated. As our environment changes, we must never forget to revise and retest out hypotheses. The revolutionary can, if we’re not careful, become the irrelevant. The thoughtful can become…
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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Curiosity: Questions are the answer to improving curiosity. Before you start reading or learning anything, ask yourself motivational questions. Most people ask questions that don’t move them to action.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
How valuable are stability and rules? So valuable that in prison, where much of daily interaction is divided along racial lines, whites actually encourage blacks to join black gangs. With more anonymity and separation, violence increases behind bars. When everyone is a part of the system—even if that means joining
Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
You will also likely have to remind the group that the goal is not practicality. We’re living in a counterfactual world and nothing should be taken as unachievable at this point; we’ll have plenty of time to be choosy during intervention selection, and we can always scale back a strong intervention to fit resource constraints. There may also be a
... See moreMatt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
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As the old saying goes, “You can do anything once you stop trying to do everything.”
Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
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Step 1: Every Mind Map starts in the center of a blank page with an image that represents the subject of the entire Mind Map. I will call this one “systems.” As we now know, images are memorable and stimulate more creativity. Step 2: Once you have your central image, start branching out with your main headings.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
However, if the strategy is a long–short dollar-neutral strategy (i.e., the portfolio holds long and short positions with equal capital), then 10 percent is quite a good return, because then the benchmark of comparison is not the market index, but a riskless asset such as the yield of the three-month US Treasury bill (which at the time of this
... See moreErnest P. Chan • Quantitative Trading
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