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Career Moats 101 - Commonplace
Career Moats 101 - Commonplace
A summary of everything I know on the topic of building career moats.
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Career Moats 101 - Commonplace
Don't Beat Yourself Up Over Self-Directed Work - Commonplace
Don't Beat Yourself Up Over Self-Directed Work - Commonplace
The most important lesson I learnt from writing and launching a book in 2019, applicable to all those who've decided to take on self-directed work in their lives.
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Don't Beat Yourself Up Over Self-Directed Work - Commonplace
Action Produces Information - Commonplace
Action Produces Information - Commonplace
Why we need to be careful when using frameworks from the field of judgment and decision making.
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Action Produces Information - Commonplace
Seek Failures Early - Commonplace
Seek Failures Early - Commonplace
A simple trick to use whenever you're thinking of doing a massive career change: find the people who have failed, and ask them why.
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Seek Failures Early - Commonplace
How To Optimise for Success, A Theory - Commonplace
How To Optimise for Success, A Theory - Commonplace
Successful practitioners use 'optimise for usefulness' over 'optimise for truth'. Unintended side effect: this means it's ok to believe in religion, so long as it doesn't harm you.
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How To Optimise for Success, A Theory - Commonplace
Follow Your Nose - Commonplace
Follow Your Nose - Commonplace
Why it's probably a good idea to keep a list of questions in your head. Also how I find topics to write about.
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Follow Your Nose - Commonplace
Get Numb Before You Get Good - Commonplace
Get Numb Before You Get Good - Commonplace
You can't pursue expertise if you're scared of starting. Why it's better to get numb first before you focus on getting good.
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Get Numb Before You Get Good - Commonplace
A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice - Commonplace
A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice - Commonplace
A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice is a series that examines the idea of putting Charlie Munger's Elementary Worldly Wisdom to practice in one's life in the pursuit of better decision making.
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A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice - Commonplace
Beware What Sounds Insightful - Commonplace
Beware What Sounds Insightful - Commonplace
Why the Internet has driven writing to sound ever more insightful, how writers accomplish this, and what to do about it.
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Beware What Sounds Insightful - Commonplace
Time Allocation as Capital Allocation - Commonplace
Time Allocation as Capital Allocation - Commonplace
What if we treated time management as a bet allocation problem? Say that we have a finite number of hours, which we might spend on a variety of career activities. How do we figure out what to spend our time on, instead of merely thinking about time management as how to tackle our todo lists?
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Time Allocation as Capital Allocation - Commonplace
The three kinds of non-fiction books - Commonplace
The three kinds of non-fiction books - Commonplace
There are 3 kinds of non-fiction book: 💁‍♀️ narrative, 🌳 tree, and 🌿 branch. Not every non-fiction book is worth reading, and not every book should be read the same way. These categories explain why.
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The three kinds of non-fiction books - Commonplace