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If humility is so important, why are leaders so arrogant?
Bill Taylor, co-founder of Fast Company, tackles this question in the Harvard Business Review. | learn more
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A hard-to-read font promises to help boost your memory.
The science behind Sans Forgetica, which incorporates a learning principle called ‘desirable difficulty.’ | learn more
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How to talk to strangers.
If you struggle with talking to strangers, maybe this can help! “Kio Stark has always talked to strangers. She shares 5 ways to spark a meaningful interaction with someone you’ve never met before.” | learn more
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Tricking your brain into learning more.
“When 50,000 of Mark Rober’s 3 million YouTube subscribers participated in a basic coding challenge, the data all pointed to what Rober has dubbed the Super Mario Effect. The YouTube star and former NASA engineer describes how this data-backed mindset […]
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Fireside chat: Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Naval Ravikant.
I really like Naval Ravikant, and I like Taleb’s ideas (maybe not his personality 😀). The talk is a nice digest of Taleb’s writing, interspersed with Naval chiming in. |learn more
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How your brain decides without you.
You may already know, but cannot be reminded too often, that your brain’s priority is not truth, but rather narrative consistency. | learn more
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All things sales: 16 mini-lessons for startup founders.
This series of short videos by a16z partner Peter Levine is aimed at teaching sales basics to technical founders. | learn more
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How to ask for a pay raise.
“Kelly Coffey, CEO of JPMorgan Chase’s US Private Bank, shared advice on the topic.” | learn more
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The contractor who blows away deadlines.
This is about “construction guru C.C. Myers.” What a guy! “In 2007, for example, when a stretch of Interstate 80 collapsed in Oakland, a competing firm came in with a bid of $6.4 million. C.C.’s bid? $800,000. As usual, he […]
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The disproportional power of anecdotes.
“As humans, we make decisions emotionally, and justify them rationally. And nothing helps us do both quite like the anecdote. It gives us the push we need to make the decision we want, and enough data to feel good about […]