Personal mastery
Meta skills towards continual self improvement. Self awareness, learning, unlearning, emotional intelligence, discipline, commitment, adaptability, clarity, good judgment
Personal mastery
“I believe . . . that everyone, of whatever age and circumstance, is capable of self-transformation.”
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
Superforecasters’ online interactions are exercises in extremely polite antagonism, disagreeing without being disagreeable.
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
at scale, it is very common to have some significant number of product teams that are there in support of the other product teams. These are often called platform product teams, or shared services product teams. They are very high leverage, but they are a little different in that they generally don't directly serve customers. They serve customers
... See moreMarty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
pitch framework.
Number one, you start by looking forward
and lead with your destination.
Number two, then you go to your backstory.
And number three, you round it all out for me
by connecting the dots and bringing it all together.
And the beauty of this strategy
is that you know, and you will practice,
and you will wrestle with your destination.
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Number one, you start by looking forward
and lead with your destination.
Number two, then you go to your backstory.
And number three, you round it all out for me
by connecting the dots and bringing it all together.
And the beauty of this strategy
is that you know, and you will practice,
and you will wrestle with your destination.
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The pitch framework: Destination, backstory, connect the dots - Pitching Yourself for Opportunity Video Tutorial | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com
via Jodi Glickman (pitching yourself)
Trusting Your Gut
My favorite advice about the role of feelings in decision-making is this short Quora post by Auren Hoffman (founder/CEO of LiveRamp). The concise summary of the advice is: “You should trust your gut to avoid things, but you should use data to decide to take action.”
My favorite advice about the role of feelings in decision-making is this short Quora post by Auren Hoffman (founder/CEO of LiveRamp). The concise summary of the advice is: “You should trust your gut to avoid things, but you should use data to decide to take action.”
Stay SaaSy • Advice That I Can't Get Out of My Head
What could the forecasters have done to avoid the conjunction fallacy, without seeing the direct comparison, or even knowing that anyone was going to test them on the conjunction fallacy? It seems to me, that they would need to notice the word “and.” They would need to be wary of it—not just wary, but leap back from it. Even without knowing that
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when humans are pressured into forming an opinion, they’ll often react by spouting babble that has little basis in fact or reason. Essentially, people tend not to have an opinion on something until they’re prompted for one, at which point they just hastily make one up. To make matters worse, humans don't like to change their opinion, as they think
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Yet is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?
Swami Vivekananda • Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
The very concept of a limit implies that you can’t do everything you want—so we must think of smarter ways to work. Let’s be honest: Many of us don’t make this kind of adjustment until we are required to. Limits force us to rethink how we are working and push us to new heights of creativity.