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Live in a fake cosy world or the matrix

(Excerpt from Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke) In the movie, the matrix was built to be a more comfortable version of the world. Our brains, likewise, have evolved to make our version of the world more comfortable: our...

August 29, 2020| Ego, Self-serving Bias Read More

Worry about the process, not the outcome

(Excerpt from Keep Going by Austin Kleon) Worry less about getting things done. Worry more about things worth doing. Worry less about being a great artist. Worry more about being a good human being who makes art....

August 29, 2020| Ego, Life Read More

Obsess with the verb, not the noun

(Excerpt from Keep Going by Austin Kleon) Lots of people want to be the noun without doing the verb. They want the job title without the work. Let go of the thing that you’re trying to be (the noun), and focus on the...

August 27, 2020| Execution Read More

Money is the best measure of business value

(Excerpt from Your Move by Ramit Sethi) Money is the marker that you’re doing the right thing because money is the ultimate value to people. When someone is willing to open their wallet and give you their credit...

August 25, 2020| Business, Sales Read More

Definite – Indefinite – Optimistic – Pessimistic

(Excerpt from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) To a definite optimist, the future will be better than the present if he plans and works to make it better. A definite pessimist believes the future can be known, but since it...

August 23, 2020| Life, Matrix Read More

The Demand Matrix

(Excerpt from Your Move by Ramit Sethi) In the upper right-hand corner of the chart, you’ve got the Golden Goose. Ideas that fall under this section make GREAT businesses. That’s because these ideas have the...

August 23, 2020| Matrix, Strategy Read More

Self-serving bias serves the ego

(Excerpt from Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke) self-serving bias arises from our drive to create a positive self-narrative. In that narrative, taking credit for something good is the same as saying we made the right...

August 23, 2020| Ego, Luck, Self-serving Bias Read More

Express your confidence in the accuracy of your belief in percentages

(Excerpt from Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke) … we also rated our level of confidence about the accuracy of our belief on a scale of zero to ten? Zero would mean we are certain a belief is not true. Ten would...

August 22, 2020| Confirmation Bias, Ego, Fallibility, Overconfidence Bias Read More

The smarter you are, the more you succumb to your biases

(Excerpt from Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke) Surprisingly, being smart can actually make bias worse. Let me give you a different intuitive frame: the smarter you are, the better you are at constructing a narrative...

August 21, 2020| Bias Read More

Getting benefits from a community requires some personal sacrifices

(Excerpt from Mindfuck Monday 17 Aug 2020 by Mark Manson) Basically: living in a community has benefits, but those benefits require that each individual makes sacrifices. Politics is then the discussion of these...

August 20, 2020| World Read More

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