Mental effort is the real divide. “What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.” The early story of AI at work is not leisure, it is intensity: one study found that after […]
Change the habit loop. “About 40 to 45% of what you do every day, according to studies, is a habit.” Charles Duhigg made this great solo video overviewing the keyconcepts from two of his books, The Power of Habit and […]
Counting geese at work. “I spend, to a first approximation, half my life counting geese.” In 2022 that meant endless reconciliation across GitHub, Linear, Drive, CRM, and slide decks. In his 2026 version, “The AI counts the geese now.” ~ […]
People are bad at picking health plan. “They spent 24% more than they had, with a majority of employees picking a plan for which a strictly better version existed.” I am not sure that I’ve always (or ever?) picked the […]
11 universal and objective truths about making friends. “Also, when you’ve just moved to a new city, you have to say “yes” to everything.” ~ learn more
How to ask for help. “There is only one principle. Put yourself in their mind.” The whole piece is a checklist for asking strangers for help without making it weird: show you are serious, give tight context, make the ask […]
Discovery needs dialogue. The piece argues that isolation helps you implement decisions, but conversation is where problem understanding and new thinking actually get made. ~ learn more
How entrepreneurs figure out what they want. Taylor Pearson argues that you get unstuck by inventorying your means first, then letting the goals emerge from them. “Assuming you have some vague goal or sense of which direction you’d like to […]
The new career flex. “Now, the real flex is going back to being an Individual Contributor.” Elena Verna argues the ladder got weird when headcount became the signal of impact, and introduces the “High-Impact Individual Contributor” who can ship end-to-end […]
Grindslop. “In a grindslop company, the hours are the output.” Will Manidis draws a clean line between hard companies that work long hours to build something, and a darker version where suffering becomes the product and gets performed for status. […]