Much writing about stress focuses exclusively on the “fight or flight” stress response, and unfortunately that’s true for this article. Read this with the knowledge that stress is a necessary part of life and you are not well-served to avoid […]
“Information abundance, like all markets of abundance, is bad for the average person but great for a small number of people.” | learn more
Lenny Rachitsky, who writes a great newsletter, explains how he created a consistent writing habit in this slide deck. He shares his 10 strategies. | learn more
Seth Godin asks and answers in this short post. | learn more
On management: “A formative idea for a younger me: give the people who work for you a chance to resolve complex issues on their own.” | learn more
“We know today much more than we knew one hundred years ago. It seems reasonable to expect that in another hundred years, today’s level of knowledge will seem low. If we look at all of the past beliefs that today […]
“Most things by definition are created average. Here is a mental framework for creating exceptional products with examples from Apple.” | learn more
From Frank Slootman, former CEO of Data Domain and ServiceNow and now CEO of Snowflake. “There is room up in organizations to boost performance by amping up the pace and intensity. Considerable slack naturally exists in organizations to perform at […]
“We’re going to analyze media from a systems perspective, and explore the properties that make it a good source of power.” | learn more
I went searching for examples of adding manpower to solve an immediate problem. I found this instead. Adding headcount has diminishing returns because of indivisibility, ramp-up time, and communications overhead. I am still interested in the inverse: when does it work? If […]