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Source: https://perell.com/essay/50-ideas-that-changed-my-life/ These are my guiding principles and the light of my intellectual life. All of them will help you think better, and I hope they inspire curiosity.  1. Inversion: Avoiding stupidity is easier than trying to be brilliant. Instead of asking, “How can I help my company?” you should ask, “What’s hurting my company the most…

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Source: Scott H Young Most people think being smart is about having more facts. Trivia-shows like Jeopardy! epitomize this view of knowledge. The smartest people are the people with the most names, dates and places stored away inside their mind. This is probably the least important and useful part of learning though. Instead of facts, I’d prefer…

Source: An article on Medium.com Design Thinking is a problem-solving approach for complex problems. There are several models for Design Thinking, including those produced by IDEO, Stanford, IBM and the UK Design Council, but all of them emphasize the same core set of problem-solving principles: empathy, iteration, optimism and collaboration. Design Thinking organizes these principles into an applied method which,…

Source: https://hbr.org/2021/04/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-manager-today Summary: Managers used to be selected and promoted largely based on their ability to manage and evaluate the performance of employees who could carry out a particular set of tasks. But three disruptive, transformative trends are challenging traditional definitions of the manager role: Normalization of remote work, automation, and changing employee expectations. These…

HIRING is the single most important activity in any organization. Buying the best seems like the way to go if you’re building a baseball team, but it’s much trickier if you’re building a team or company. Most organizations run recruiting the same way: Post your job, screen resumes, interview some people, pick whom to hire. Nothing…

Source: https://daily.stoa.com/newsletter/we-need-to-talk ‍“When I was an individual contributor, I was working on a project with two other developers. One of the developers quit and the other was fired. They were not replaced and it wasn’t made evident to me that replacements would be hired. With the lack of resources, I started having to work until midnight…

Everyone should learn how to manage the system, not the people. It is often the case we are introduced to many management processes, practices and techniques over time. If one takes a 40k foot view of these, how does the landscape look like? What are still relevant for these times? Jurgen Appelo’s book “Managing for…

This is Part 1 of 2 of my notes from Simon Sinek’s START WITH WHY. A must-read book. You can read Part 2 here. Most companies have no clue why their customers are their customers. Odds are good that they don’t know why their employees are their employees either. Then how do they know to…

This is Part 2/2 of my notes from Simon Sinek’s Start with Why.You can read Part 1/2 here <to link>. The Need to Belong Our need to belong is not rational, but it is a constant that exists across all people in all cultures. It is a feeling we get when those around us share…