Tag: management
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We have bad metrics as a society (X) Managers when a star employee leaves (X) “Everything Kevin Kelly knows about self-publishing” CAPITALISM GIVES ME THE FREEDOM TO PURSUE AS MANY SIDE GIGS AS I WANT TO PAY OFF MY INCREASING BILLS AND LOANS
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“14 Novels I’d Save” “Under communist rule, Poland was exceptionally unequal in nearly everything that mattered” (X) Interesting. The Secret History Is Still the Book I Recommend to Everyone (paywall) “The Secret History is my personal Platonic ideal of what a novel should be, and since I first read it back in the heady days of junior…
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The repressed object at the bottom of the nerd subconscious, the thing too scary to view except through humor, is that you’re smarter than everyone else, but for some reason it isn’t working. Somehow all that stuff about small talk and sportsball and drinking makes them stronger than you. No equation can tell you why.…
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The PARA Method – the best way to organize a folder that I’ve ever found. Getting Things Done – Systematize the clutter in your brain and get things done – they call it work Zen for a reason. An opinionated guide to using Anki correctly. – repetitive ways to improve learning.
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Daniel Kahneman wrote Thinking Fast and Slow, a foundational text about the various ways humans make decisions. This post summarizes a few of his strategies for improving thinking. One stood out, because I think it would apply to better hiring decisions: Delay Your Intuition: At 22, Kahneman redesigned the Israeli army’s interview system. The old…
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“It is a fully realized theory of management that falsifies 83.8% of the business section of the bookstore…”
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Managers do more than manage people. They build machines: Entrepreneurship is really just a fancy word for delegation. It’s a continuous process of removing yourself from the equation step-by-step and empowering your team to do the things that they do best….Henry Ford didn’t build cars, he built factories. To me, a great leader’s job is…
