Dave's Library

“If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.”

It’s a paradox: Shouldn’t the most accomplished be well equipped to make choices that maximize life satisfaction?

David Marquet led a distinguished career in the United States' Submarine Force, culminating in command of the nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine USS Santa...

Sure, you can use Photoshop to make your photos seem surreal, but could you do it only with your camera? These guys will show you how.

Schools claim to teach it; voters lionize it. But we know surprisingly little about how it works.

An important life lesson is revealed by an unlikely source.

Precedents matter. What you do and say early on in a relationship (romantic or business) sets the expectation; hard to change. (via @ramit) — Ben Casnocha (@bencasnocha) October 12, 2015 I made a note of this tweet from Ben Casnocha...

Have you ever wished you could eradicate the ums and ahs right out of your conversation and especially your public presentations? Turns out those verbal fillers may play an important role in establishing trust, according to this Slate magazine article by Michael Erard: “…’uh’ and ‘um’ don’t deserve

Read up on the top 100 productivity improvement hacks that will give you the ability to crush it like a boss at work, school, and in everyday life!

How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals -- including embracing failure. "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most," Grant says. "You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones."

Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a résumé, and the self who seeks connection, community, love -- the values that make for a great eulogy. (Joseph Soloveitchik has called these selves "Adam I" and "Adam II.") Brooks asks: Can we balance these two selves?

Resilience is a set of skills—and psychologists know how you can learn them.

Steve Ko's blog

A Modest Proposal Last month, I wrote an intentionally provocative article for the Harvard Business Review's website. It was titled, "A Modest Proposal:

[This is an excerpt from The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity] Many of our popular stories of discovery are portrayed as accidents or matters of lu…

You've landed the interview for your perfect job. You're on the phone with a potential new client.

Martin Luther King's last speech