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Y Combinator’s essential startup advice.
Great fundamental advice by the group worth listening to. This is appropriate for anyone building a business from the ground up. | learn more
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Decision-making auditing.
VC Tom Tunguz details his strategy for answering the pitfall-ridden question “What do you think?” Instead of presuming to lecture someone who probably has better insight into the problem, he instead probes their decision-making process to help them find their […]
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How to build a company where the best ideas win.
In this TED talk, the ridiculously successful investor Ray Dalio showcases how he establishes radical candor inside his hedge fund. He shares an email where an employee graded him a D- on a meeting for being unprepared, and his firm’s amazing software […]
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The effects of excellent followup, and the consequences of bad followup.
Sebastian Marshall (who is an incredibly smart guy) writes about followup, and how it can boost your outcomes in life and business. He also gives concrete ways to improve yours. | learn more
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Brain biases that hold people back in life.
Pro poker player Liv Boeree discusses cognitive biases that great poker players avoid at the table, and goes on to discuss real-world implications of the biases. | learn more
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Avoid being on the wrong side of right.
Maybe we’ve all been there – working on proving ourselves right rather than achieving the best outcome. This is a nice reminder about why we must avoid that! | learn more
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Ownership is a defining trait of a leader.
Tomasz Tunguz bring us a nice short post highlighting two times when people took public ownership of their errors, and the positive consequences that ensued. One error was deadly serious – a friendly fire incident involving Navy Seals. | learn more
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Why copycats are successful.
A Farnam Street article about Batesian Mimicry. This gets into a bit of biology, a bit of evolution, and a lot of thinking. | learn more
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How to give employees feedback.
On the same topic as above, feedback is probably the most important part of being a good manager. | learn more
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On being a bad manager.
Jason Fried, founder of Basecamp, writes straight from the heart and discusses why it’s so easy to be a bad manager. This hits one of the biggest challenges I see people struggle with in business. | learn more