Daniel Santos

One way to view liberty, as George Orwell reminded us, is the right “to do what you like in your spare time.” You should be able to choose your amusements, he wrote, “not have them chosen for you from above.” Letting someone else’s ideas about performance stop you from trying something means relinquishing your freedom.

As Lisa Jewell, author of some eighteen bestselling novels, put it, “Pace yourself. If you write too much, too quickly, you’ll go off at tangents and lose your way and if you write infrequently you’ll lose your momentum. A thousand words a day is a good ticking over amount.”

a ideia insistente de que “é verdade, é verdade!” torna difícil verificar a lógica, e a maioria das pessoas não se dá ao trabalho de pensar sobre o problema.

Definimos a heurística de disponibilidade como o processo de julgar a frequência segundo a “facilidade com que as ocorrências vêm à mente”

I once had to figure out how much data storage my office could save by erasing old news articles. Users told me that they did not want anything erased, in case they needed it in the future. But when I checked the usage data, I found that 80% of articles accessed were from the last 3 months. and only 6 articles older than 12 months had been

“Emotional intelligence is a set of personal skills we learn in life. It’s a combination of self-awareness, managing your emotions well, empathy, tuning into other people, and putting that all together to have harmonious or effective relationships.”

This skill set has become even more essential as workplaces become increasingly decentralized,