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
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
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
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
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
On the same topic as above, feedback is probably the most important part of being a good manager. | learn more
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
Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize winning physicist. One of his claims to fame was his ability to teach very difficult subject matter. “The Feynman technique for teaching and communication is a mental model (a breakdown of his personal thought […]
One of the most popular posts on Farnam Street. “Amateurs believe that the world should work the way they want it to. Professionals realize that they have to work with the world as they find it. Amateurs are scared — […]
I’ve been very interested in cognitive biases over the past year. I believe identifying them before they drag you along too far is a key to avoiding bad decisions. Avoiding bad decisions is a key to success. | learn more