Are you ever frustrated with how statistics are abused in the media (and elsewhere)? So am I. So is Dr. Peter Attia. He wrote this as a reminder to look beyond the headline stats. | learn more
“Learn the 4-step process fighter pilots use to make split-second decisions when the stakes are at their highest.” |learn more
For the sake of my ego, I hope so! This is not a silly buzzfeed quiz, but it is a quiz. It’s definitely worth spending a few minutes on, given how eye-opening it was for me. | learn more
“In a new analysis of 1 million U.S. teens, my co-authors and I looked at how teens were spending their free time and which activities correlated with happiness, and which didn’t.” | learn more
We silly humans (aka slightly evolved apes) do not intuitively use expected value thinking, but it’s the best way to make decisions. So, we must train ourselves. This great Farnam Street post goes into details. | learn more
Interesting short post about how creativity is fostered by constraints. | learn more
This post tells the story of how the Vanderbilt family went from a consolidated $5B fortune in 1886 to not a millionaire among them in 1973. It’s advice on what not to do. | learn more
Highrise CEO Nathan Kontny gets to the heart of an important issue: peaking in your career. He uses the value of paintings to show Picasso peaked early in life, while Cézanne kept improving over time. Don’t be “done” already! | learn more
It’s healthy to sit and think about this concept for a bit: “Most people sleep about seven or eight hours a night. That leaves 16 or 17 hours awake each day. Or about 1,000 minutes. Let’s think about those 1,000 minutes […]
This is a great article that explains something that I learned first-hand a few years back. I found myself transferring to-do items to my calendar regularly to plan my time. Eventually, I skipped the to-do list altogether. The calendar has […]