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Unbeatable Leadership Skills that can Help You Champion Every Course. Being a leader is hard but being a good leader is harder. The role of a leader is

Unlike most of the sciences, astronomy is always done at a distance. You can see the stars, but you can’t do anything about them. Sometimes the media would like us to believe that we’re…

We’ve spent 130 years indoctrinating kids with the same structure. Now, as some of us enter a post-lockdown world, I’d like to propose a useful (though some might say radical) way to re…

Many of us feel that the current intellectual climate is difficult to bear. When I first noticed the phenomenon, people told me that it was because of Donald Trump. He just made it impossible to debate calmly. But now that Trump is gone, the climate is just as bad and, if nothing else, much worse. … Continue reading How I debate

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You want to perform at your best during your workday. You want to feel that brain fog lifted. And you want to try to bottle if you can that feeling of being bright-eyed and fresh and mentally capable to take things on. So get started with this.

They’re related. Management isn’t. Management uses power and authority to get people to do tasks you know can be done. Management is needed, but management is insufficient. Leadership i…

Culture doesn’t change (much). Elements of human culture have been around for 100,000 years, and it persists. In fact, its persistence is a key attribute of why it works. People like us do th…

Why other people’s emotions might not be about you — and your emotions might not be about them

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” — Richard Feynman “A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.” — Samuel Johnson “Read what interests you. If Scott does not interest you and Dickens does, drop Scott and read Dickens. You need not be any one’s enemy; but you need not be a friend with everybody. This is as true of books as of persons. For friendship some agreement in temperament is quite essential.” — Lyman Abbott

Somewhere, perhaps nearby, it went well. A family gathering happened and all the details were right. A project launched on Kickstarter and it succeeded. A person was hired and they were a good choi…

Good ideas feel early. And late ideas are acclaimed by most of the reviewers with opinions that don’t actually matter. Part of our challenge is that the lousy ideas get a very similar pre-lau…

Learning is an investment. Which skills will pay off? Here are seven, frequently overlooked, abilities worth mastering.

If you want to grow, you need to invest in yourself

When we think about fads, we typically think about things like clothes and toys. But ideas — from those around diet to entire philosophies — can also ride the waves of cultural fancy. Keto, jiu-jitsu, and Stoicism will one day seem as outmoded as low-fat eating, taekwondo, and 90s-style evangelical Christianity do now. Social issues […]

For a month now I’ve been doing a very successful experiment in orienting my time to what matters to me most, without beating myself up with incomplete to-do lists. I track my successful focu…

Seven bowls might take up an entire cabinet. But if the designer slopes the sides of each bowl just so, they stack. The amount of space required to store them goes down by 80%. The hard part isn&#8…

Transitions can be some of the most difficult parts of life. Childhood into adolescence; adolescence into young adulthood; young adulthood into post-college maturity. Ending a relationship. Beginning a marriage. Starting school. Finishing school. Having your first kid; being done with having kids; becoming an empty nester. Quitting a job. Taking a job. Moving out. Moving […]

It’s such a hard thing to be honest about. Because money is tied into status, possibility, self-worth, connection, sustenance and more. How many people would be doctors if being a doctor was …

Some intellectuals use charisma and deception to obscure the holes in their arguments. Here is how to see through their smokescreen.

If you call tech support, it’s likely that they’ll ask you to turn your computer on and off. That’s not because this step often fixes the problem, but if it does, you’ve fou…

Patterns in confusing explanations

Learn the routines that set apart great engineers

If your customer service strategy consists of mollifying angry customers, you’ll always be behind. Life becomes a fire drill and work becomes an endless chore. The alternative is to invest in…

Of all the buttons and all the swipes and all the scrolls on all the websites, is that one you’re going to click next the very best thing you could be doing right now? Juxtaposition has gotte…

You can read this post in six minutes. It took me more than an hour to write. That extra editing and polish is a benefit to the reader. You can read this post instead of 100 others, because people …

Through our article you will have information about brilliant methods of how to learn Latin in several best ways that not everyone knows!

Take this quiz to figure out if you have Soft Suburban Dad Syndrome and then take action on getting your edge back.

Psychological effects you must know

The Semai, an indigenous people who inhabit the Malay Peninsula, may represent the most non-violent and conflict-averse society on earth. Anthropologists posit that after enduring a century of predation by Malay raiders and slavers, they developed a sense of “learned helplessness”; because it didn’t seem possible to fight back, they adopted a pattern of fleeing […]