mindsets

The integration of technique and intuition is a delicate process… but vital in the pursuit of excellence

Your entire worldview changes when you realize you can *create luck*.

The other weekend I had the opportunity to run a 5k with my daughter (10) – her first such race – near Seattle Center in downtown Seattle. She first participated in a 1k kids dash witho…

The concept of broken window theory was introduced by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in their Atlantic magazine article Broken Windows. The authors argued that visible signs of neglect chang…

Many people seem to think the 'good' state of being, the 'ground' state, is a relaxed state, a state with lots of rest and very little action. Because they think the ground state is the relaxed state, they act like maintaining any other state requires effort, requires suffering. This is

The 0.1% of thoughts I have

Execution is an idea at its highest fidelity

More summaries won’t automatically lead to more understanding.

"In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of [running] a business." -- George McGovern

So Simple As To Be Trivial In software engineering, there is method of analysis known as “functional decomposition.” If some function or output is not working properly, a software engineer will break the function down, layer by layer, to find the component part or input that is creating the problem. “If you layer down far

By Duncan Anderson. To see all blogs click here . Reading time: 4 mins Summary : “Progress solves all known problems.” Learning is the key lead indicator to progress (either a learning of what to do, or a learning of what not to do). As such, the optimal size for a unit of work = The small

Coming out of college or out of a traditional corporate job, most people think like turkeys. I thought like a turkey. Based on our understanding of the world having spent our entire lives in Mediocristan and the fact that up until relatively recent history, we have lived in Mediocristan, a turkey’s view of the world is highly rational. It’s also wrong. “A turkey is fed for a thousand days by a butcher; every day confirms to its staff of analysts that butchers love turkeys “with increased statistical confidence.” The butcher will keep feeding the turkey until a few days before Thanksgiving… [The] turkey will have a revision of belief— right when its confidence in the statement that the butcher loves turkeys is maximal and ‘it is very quiet’ and soothingly predictable in the life of the turkey.” -N.N. Taleb

Agency just accelerated and no one told you. The internet has accelerated disintermediation and increased agency more than any prior technology, but it’s only been commercially available for a couple of decades.

The Threshold Theory The Terman Study of the Gifted is one of the most legendary studies in psychology. In 1916, Lewis Terman developed America’s first IQ test. He used it and other evaluations to recruit 1,528 of the highest-IQ students he could find. The study began in 1921 and went on to become the longest-running

BTI360 teammate Joel Goldberg recently retired after working in the software industry for over four decades. When he left he shared with our team some of the lessons he learned over his career. With his...

You said, “All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.” How does one know if they’re earning compound interest? Compound interest is a very powerful concept. Compound interest applies to more than just compounding capital. Compounding capit

“Every transformation demands as its precondition ‘the ending of a world’ — the collapse of an old philosophy of life.” ― Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols

Ideas to help you make sense of the world

Algorithms distort the world. They can trap us in local maxima, and restrict the kind of random serendipity that makes our personalities liquid. On Tuesday, I had lunch with a friend who invests in artificial intelligence startups. To my surprise, he doesn’t use any algorithms in his personal life. No Spotify Discover Weekly. No Netflix

Today marks two years of not drinking. A few things I noticed: – our society revolves around drinking – not enough bars and restaurants offer non-alcoholic beers or mocktails – be…

Family relationships are often unconsciously recreated at work

They apply to jobs, relationships, art projects and everything in between: The top right is the rare one–a car that goes fast but doesn’t feel like it’s on the edge. The hot rod i…

When considering whether to buy yet another book, you might well ask yourself when you'll get around to reading it. But perhaps there are other, even more important considerations, such as the intellectual value of the book in its still-unread state.

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