mindsets

Farnam Street’s founder talks about learning loops, how to read, and how to avoid bullshit

No skill is more valuable than the ability to think. But how can we learn to think better? How can we avoid thinking poorly. Let's explore.

The 2-way-door rule is an emotionally intelligent way to strip away emotional clutter and build a bias toward action.

Chris Dixon's blog.

Are you good at changing perspectives? If so, it may benefit you in more ways than you imagine.

MECE is a famous consulting principle which means mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive. Its a tool to sharpen your thinking

I recently returned to Haruki Murakami’s 2007 pseudo-memoir, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. I first encountered this book back in 2009. It inspired me at the time to write an essay titled “On the Value of Hard Focus,” which laid the foundation on which I went on to build my theory of […]

Asking useful questions is a skill, and it requires practice.

How to play the game of life for long-term rewards

By Duncan Anderson. To see all blogs click here . Reading time: 7 mins One Sentence Summary : it’s not optimal to be one way all the time, try to figure out what mode best suits each set of circumstances!  “Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit t

Listening increases the value and impact of your words. “The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.” Stephen R. Covey Not listening: Waiting-listening:…

“Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.” True.

By Duncan Anderson. To see all blogs click here . Reading time: 4 mins One Sentence Summary : in the present good and bad things will happen, but bad things in the present can be good long term if you can learn from them.  *Note: for the purpose of this blog I’m going to be talki

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Avoiding bad decisions is just as important as making good ones. Knowing the warning signs and having a set of rules for your decision-making process limits the amount of luck you need to get good outcomes.

If you had asked me this question—How do you change a mind?—two years ago, I would have given you a different answer. As a former scientist, I would have cautioned you to rely on objective facts and statistics. Develop a strong case for your side, back it up with hard,

I recently came across a Hemingway quote that caught my attention: “My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.” It reminded me of a time I used to spend each spring as a young professor, back when my schedule allowed it, giving short talks at so-called “dissertation bootcamp” events. The […]

By Duncan Anderson. To see all blogs click here . Reading time: 16 mins You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.  Will try (aka take the shot) = have sufficient+ self esteem Outcome = 1. Will try * 2. How well you try If you don’t try then the outcome can never be good.&a

Ensemble averages and time averages

How did the debate over commercial radio reflect American attitudes toward technological change in the 1920s?

The Common Denominator of Success is as valuable today as when it was first delivered by Albert E.N. Gray in 1940 at the annual convention for insurance underwriters.

A great “Life Hack” is to simply combine these two into one basic approach to living your life: “Go positive and go first, and be constant in doing it.”

In his AMA on reddit, Elon Musk talks about how to build knowledge.

The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking offers easily learnable habits of mind that improve your ability to think clearly and rationally.

If you’re after a way to supercharge your learning and become smarter, the Feynman Technique might just be the best way to learn absolutely anything. Devised by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, it leverages the power of teaching for better learning.

If you’re after a way to supercharge your learning and become smarter, the Feynman Technique might just be the best way to learn absolutely anything. Devised by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, it leverages the power of teaching for better learning.

By Duncan Anderson. To see all blogs click here . Reading time: 10 mins Summary : We often make decisions/create outputs based on intuition and thoughtless thinking. IMO the best outputs are products of thinking about the thinking that went into creating that output. Then, levelling up that