Gaia Soykok

Incentive programs, and the performance appraisal systems that accompany them, reduce the possibilities for cooperation. Peter R. Scholtes, senior management consultant at Joiner Associates Inc., put it starkly, “Everyone is pressuring the system for individual gain. No one is improving the system for collective gain. The system will inevitably... See more

Coinbase is a recommendation company Gokul recommends for working in. ( This has not aged well :D)

New disciplines need serial polymaths, and in the age of specialisation, this was a job that was left polymaths to coin new disciplines.

Do this, and you’ll get that” is not really very different from “Do this or here’s what will happen to you.”

Great positioning will feel obvious. "Of course, that is what it is. What else could it be? " feeling.

Julie was good at discussions in a small setting and withholding in a larger setting. She had to work on it and so she started something scary writing publicly on the internet. It helped with public sharing phobia as well as clarity in thinking and structuring.

As Thane S. Pittman, professor and chair of the psychology department at Gettysburg College, and his colleagues point out, when we are motivated by incentives, “features such as predictability and simplicity are desirable, since the primary focus associated with this orientation is to get through the task expediently in order to reach the desired... See more

polymaths are often known as generalists, the knowledge of many disciplines is their speciality.