Investment is broadly defined in this article, not just financial. Point #1: don’t use Expected Value. The framework Jason Cohen provides in this post looks valuable to me. ~ learn more
This is a brief and interesting assessment. “I’ve found it’s best to think of burnout not as a disease but as a symptom, with many different etiologies. The big three: permanent on-call, broken steering, and mission doubt.” ~ learn more
“The single biggest change is that memory is no longer a haphazard event, to be left to chance. Rather, I can guarantee I will remember something, with minimal effort: it makes memory a _choice_.” ~ learn more
The podcast host Shaan Puri went to one of Robbins’ seminars years ago that impacted his career. His excitement shines through this great interview. “Tony has built a $7 billion dollar empire and helped people like Ray Dalio, Connor McGregor […]
A point on the practical limitations of statistics and p values and such. “Hey dude, remember that statistics are just a tool for distinguishing signal from noise. If we really knew what was going on, we wouldn’t need statistics. It’s […]
“The bread-and-butter of modern news, politics, etc, is having a dramatic event happen, getting shocked and outraged, demanding that something be done, and then devoting a news cycle or Senate hearing to it. We can’t just throw all that out, […]
I’ve always struggled to truly understand Information Theory, and this article helped me get a bit closer. “Before finding my way to startups, I was a quantum physicist. One of the most fundamental concepts we learn in physics is entropy. […]
Southwest Airlines and Stevens Aviation once settled a trademark question with a CEO-to-CEO arm wrestling match. It resulted in a ton of free PR for both. “While most companies would settle the dispute the conventional way—by calling in the lawyers […]
Technologist David Heinemeier Hansson (known as DHH) is now a bit of a philosophy student as well. “Eric Fromm followed the same path of wisdom to additional insights. In The Pathology of Normalcy, he spells out exactly what makes modern […]
Todd Herman helped Kobe Bryant craft his alter ego, the Black Mamba. He is a performance coach who uses the tool of identity, “because your identity—the person or the view of yourself that’s going out to perform on that field—is […]