A comprehensive summary of superforecaster techniques from Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner's Superforecasting. Because — let's face it — you want to predict the future, don't you? | Continue reading
A reading technique that's ridiculously simple, and surprisingly effective when used in service of reading for career goals. | Continue reading
A Framework for Putting Mental Models to Practice is a series that examines the idea of putting Charlie Munger's Elementary Worldly Wisdom to practice in one's life in the pursuit of better decision making. | Continue reading
April Dunford's book on product positioning is awesome, and has some overlap with those of us who are interested in positioning an individual career. | Continue reading
Have you ever tried putting deliberate practice to practice? If you have, it's likely that you'll have noticed just how difficult it is to apply deliberate practice principles to your career. Anyone that tells you otherwise is lying; here's why. | Continue reading
The mental model fallacy is that it’s worth it to read descriptions of mental models, written and aggregated by non-practitioners, in the pursuit of self-improvement and success. It isn't. | Continue reading
There are 3 kinds of non-fiction book: 💁 narrative, 🌳 tree, and 🌿 branch. Not every non-fiction book is worth reading, and not every book should be read the same way. These categories explain why. | Continue reading
Following your passion is the worst career advice you can get. Cal Newport argues for a more effective alternative. | Continue reading
A technique to prevent burnout from my old bosses in Silicon Valley. And then some moral philosophising. | Continue reading
Why dismissively stubborn people are the worse kind of stubborn. | Continue reading
Understanding how the human brain works helps with managing yourself, as well as with orchestrating other people. | Continue reading
Successful practitioners use 'optimise for usefulness' over 'optimise for truth'. Unintended side effect: this means it's ok to believe in religion, so long as it doesn't harm you. | Continue reading
Overcompensate to compensate for the software engineer's need for perfection. | Continue reading