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How to title your blog post or whatever.

“A title has two goals. First, think of all the people in the world who, if they clicked on your thing, would finish it and love it. Ideally, those people would click. … Other people will hate your thing. It’s […]

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Why 30 is not the new 20.

This TED Talk is over 10 years old, which makes me wonder if we can find people who were influenced by it 10 years ago and ask how they’re doing now? “Clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a bold message for […]

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Play the games.

“It’s one of those secret, little pleasures of parenting that don’t get talked about enough. That hug and goodbye ritual at school dropoff. The intricate, almost compulsive bedtime routine. The playacting before you wrestle or chase them down the hall. […]

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What coachability isn’t.

“Over the years as an investor, I’ve seen a fair share of founders who are coachable and not coachable. In today’s post, I’ll take you behind curtain of one such occasion of what coachability doesn’t look like.” ~ learn more

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Hire people who give a shit.

“While it is not guaranteed that someone who gives shit will do great work, it is guaranteed that they will not do good work if they do not give a shit.” ~ learn more

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Sometimes papers contain obvious lies.

“The authors of scientific papers often say one thing and find another; they concoct a story around a set of findings that they might not have even made, or which they might have actually even contradicted. This happens surprisingly often, […]

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Wheel of emotions.

Since we can’t escape our emotions it may help us to label them better. “Created by American psychologist Robert Plutchik in 1980, Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions is a graphic depiction to describe how emotions are related. Through years of studying […]

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Our job is not to make our kids like us.

“Our job is to help our kids become who they are meant to be. Almost certainly, whoever they want to be has some precedent in our family—and history. We owe it to them to show these branches of the family […]