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- How to get better at Sales?
Entrepreneur Colin Dowling on how to get better at sales, via HN : Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be …
- Effortless Mastery
“I have come to the point where I have simply decided that effortlessness would be my prime consideration, that anything not played from an …
- Charles Darwin’s 8 Steps to Steady-State Learning
Charles Darwin’s 8 Steps to Steady-State Learning A life-long program of self-study Keeping a diary/journal Scribbling notes immediately …
- Preserving Optionality
via Farnamstreet blog post: How do we prepare for a world that often changes drastically and rapidly? We can preserve our optionality. We …
- Reasonable Ignorance
Reasonable Ignorance is a useful bias, according to Morgan Housel. What is it? Intentionally limiting your diligence in order to avoid …
- How to win in a packed category
Via @JasonFried’s blog post: Q: How do you still win in a packed category? I feel like it’s a lot harder to win now than it was 10 …
- Lessons from WeWork IPO debacle
@MorganHousel has another fantastic post on lessons applicable to a wide range of areas from the recent We Co (parent of WeWork) decision to …
- Public Speaking - Tips
From a recent HBR article When you’re preparing, think about your audience. Before diving into the information, ask yourself: Who will be in …
- Software Architecture Is Overrated
Notes from Gergely Orosz post - Software Architecture is Overrated: Software design at most tech companies and startups tend to be …
- The Four Agreements
The Four Agreements are: Be Impeccable With Your Word. Don’t Take Anything Personally. Don’t Make Assumptions. Always Do Your …
- Digital Minimalism
To this end, Newport reflects on three core practices now crowded out by our overuse of technology: solitude, conversation, and leisure. He …
- How to get Rich (Naval Ravikant's Version)
This giant episode collects all of my interviews with Nivi on How to Get Rich. These interviews are based on my tweetstorm. The individual …
- Notes on Software Engineering
Inspired by post Design for ethics. Bake your values into your creations. API Design Your API has users, thus it has a user experience. In …
- Patsy in the Game
Via Prof Sanjay Bakshi: Definitions “Patsy” is defined as someone who is “easily taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed …
- Managing Risks
via Robert Lightfoot’s website: To take on this ambitious set of missions we’ve been discussing, we have to get better at managing …
- Charlie Munger - May 2019
On Reading: Q: How much time do you spend reading in a typical day? Charlie: Oh, it’s huge. I read myself to sleep every night. I read …
- CEO Traits
5 jobs of a CEO: Set strategy Deliver capital to pursue that strategy Build team to execute Communicate the hell out of the strategy …
- Either/Or
If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or if you do not marry, you will regret both; …
- Education is something that you claim
via Maria Popova’s conversation with Krista Tippett: As a culture — you’re right. We seem somehow bored with thinking. We want to …
- The Island of Knowledge
From Marcelo Glesier’s book - The Island of Knowledge: Consider, then, the sum total of our accumulated knowledge as constituting an …