“Participants were randomly assigned to different virtual rooms. In some rooms, people saw only a list of songs, while in others they could see how many times a song had been downloaded. Altogether the researchers created eight rooms — parallel […]
This private presentation to an audience of engineers is now available on Youtube and its great. Joel was a program manager on the Excel team in the early ‘90s. “The way you are using Excel causes errors, creates incomprehensible spaghetti […]
“We often hear that making small incremental improvements every day can lead to great things. … But there’s another side to this story that we don’t discuss as often: how incremental neglect and small missteps can accumulate and lead to […]
“When a precocious yet nonconformist teenager asks why they need to learn calculus, what should you say? “ ~ learn more
This is a tactical guide for setting business goals. “A Rock must deliver dramatic, measurable impact, not merely “incremental improvement.” … This is where teams most often fall short: Not delivering enough impact to justify their investment of time.” ~ learn more
“You work towards a goal — it’s not a failure. It’s steps to success.”~ learn more
“Too often I see someone who is responsible for accomplishing an important goal doing the best they can in the face of immense odds. It may sound counterintuitive, but the mandate of such a job is not to “do the […]
Reading this hurt me a bit and sharing it hurts even more because I’ve struggled to make time to keep up my book takeaways the past couple years. For most books I only have rough notes written way-too-long after reading. This post […]
“Studies show that although Maximizers make better choices Satisficers enjoy their choices more, and of course spend less time and create less stress in making the choice.” ~ learn more
One one end of the thought see-saw is rumination, and on the other reflection. Sit for a minute in silence. “That minute of silence will feel like an hour of incessant chatter, with each thought maniacally screaming out for some […]