Tania Clarke

Second-Order Thinking

Second-­order thinking is a method of thinking that goes beyond the surface level, beyond the knee-­jerk reactions and short-­term gains. It asks us to play the long game, to anticipate the ripple effects of our actions, and to make choices that will benefit us not just today but in the months and years to come.

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“Reading is letting someone else model the world for you. This is an act of intimacy. When the author is morose, you become morose. When he is mirthful, eventually you may share in it. And after finishing a very good book one is driven a little mad, forced to return from a world that no one nearby has witnessed. ...

13. Find companies posting revenue milestones. They’re upgrading tools that month. DM with congrats + specific use case.

“I also tend to stress fiction because I think, especially among my professional peers in the industry of software, that there is too great a fondness for non-fiction. I think this arises from a belief that superior knowledge of the world comes from non-fiction. This thought is attractive to people who build systems, but over-systematizing and seei... See more

Create an Excel spreadsheet with a summary of all of the options available to you. Each option should be in one of the columns, and the decisions within them should be in rows. Do not include any opinions or judgments of "right" or "wrong." Sometimes, there are multiple nested decisions that need to be made, which can't be known until you start thi... See more