It was the first game of the season and Peyton Manning, one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the National Football League, already had a chance to set another NFL record. Late in the fourth quarter, with the ball on his own 22-yard-line, Manning stepped up to the line of scrimmage and surveyed…
The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life. — Naval Ravikant There is a science to intelligence. But most people get it wrong. They think intelligence is about book smarts and cognitive tasks. Those play a role in your success, of course, but there is much more…
Until 2021, I’d never worked in marketing. I was a tech executive who joined The Great Resignation and quit my job, pivoting to content marketing and journalism. About 18 months later, I became a full-time freelancer. I’d done some marketing when I worked in tech, but it was haphazard at best and only because the company didn’t…
Cole Nussbaumer’s “Storytelling with Data” should be on every data professional’s shelf I’ll never forget a particularly tense meeting a few years back. I was presenting a report to a group of stakeholders, and I’d spent hours crafting charts and graphs, layering in as much data as possible. Each slide was a carefully constructed masterpiece —…
What’s the most important factor that impacts an employee’s motivation at work? The level of trust they feel towards their manager. High levels of trust make them feel valued, energize them to work harder, and make them persist through difficulties and setbacks. Knowing that they’re being looked after keeps them focused on the task without being…
These habits are destroying your self-discipline Starting off a new year with a good feeling is something so many of us want. This is why New Year’s resolutions are so popular. New year, new chances, right? But being motivated at the start only to quit midway is also quite common. It happens to many of…
Management is complex, but it doesn’t need to be overwhelming. If you have read James Clear’s book Atomic Habits, you know that small actions can lead to massive results. A recent study found that 58% of employees trust a stranger more than their boss. Surprising, right? But what if changing that perception took less than 5 minutes…
Shoqëri e sfilitur në palcë. Një nga sfidat më të mëdha që ne kemi, është të kuptojmë çfarë kemi brënda boshtit të kokës, pavarësisht se dukemi zotërues të kafkave tona, por as që ja kemi haberin fare sesi e kanë pushtuar dhe kontrolluar. Irritohemi, terbohemi pa e ditur arsyen fiks se çfarë po ndodh me…
Stop falling in love with your problem, and definitely don’t fall in love with your solution. If somebody had asked me years ago to distil product management in two words, I’d have answered: solving problems. Isn’t that our main job? Find out what the customer’s problems are and solve them. Bam, job done, give me the…
It’s a shame I didn’t learn it much sooner. This will upset many people, but it is my truth. These are the darkest but necessary lessons life has taught me. I wish I had known them in my twenties. A virtual hug
A mental model is a general idea that can be used to explain many different phenomena. Supply and demand in economics, natural selection in biology, recursion in computer science, or proof by induction in mathematics — these models are everywhere once you know to look for them. Just as understanding supply and demand helps you reason about economics problems, understanding mental models of…
Using applications like ChatGPT requires some care. Part of the difficulty is that ChatGPT’s human-like conversation abilities can be deceptive. Feeling like you’re talking to a real person encourages you to rely on conversational expectations that may not hold with a machine. For instance, we generally expect that most people do not make up facts. Large…
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