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…
When you get a great idea for a business, it’s important to move quickly. Get your idea out into the world and see how people respond to it. Then, if it really resonates with people, you can spend the time and money on a perfect showcase website. But while you’re testing out your idea, it’s…
We have witnessed a multi-generational decline in reading comprehension. We read less, retain less of what we read, and struggle to engage in critical analysis. And if this trend continues, we risk undermining the very foundations of our society. In the bite-sized content and viral media age, too many of us have lost — or…
What if everything you thought you knew about money was wrong? Chances are, it is. Your relationship with money is shaped by a number of factors that you have very little control over. Your ability to save money, for example, has as much to do with your habits as it does the subconscious beliefs you…
Become more influential by learning the language of these subtle cues. Hate it when you are not taken seriously? When I started working as a 24-year-old woman, I struggled. How to command attention? How not to be dismissed for my size, gender, and lack of wrinkles or gray hair? I’ve learned hacks to be more…
Ten lessons that have personally made the biggest impact on my marketing. As a marketer, you can only gain so much knowledge in your daily work. I mean, think about it. There are only so many campaigns you can run at once, so much social media content you can create, and so many rows of data you…
Storytelling is a superpower anyone can learn. It’s the ability to structure information that aligns with how the human mind works. Information is like food. We can only digest it if it comes in a certain way. Storytelling = Information in a format that makes the human mind want more of it, not less. I…
Productivity is a funky topic now. There’s hundreds of productivity books, gurus, and philosophies — it can all feel a bit too much. And even a bit counter-productive. Over the past 3 years, I’ve jumped on the bandwagon on my own search to find the “secret” to doing more. This meant reading books, listening to…
Some of this will hurt. Heck, it took me years to unlearn these. But the sooner you realize the lies they tricked you into believing, the sooner you can thrive. Because if there’s anything I learned in life, it pays to have independent thought and be courageous enough to go against the grain if you…
In the business world, there’s few people who are held in more rarified air than Charlie Munger. Known for his investing psychology and work with Warren Buffet, Munger was an unforgettable leader and thinker. It’s impossible for me to share all of Charlie’s wisdom in one piece. But here are 9 maxims that embody how…
One needs to be confronted with a lot of evidence before changing their mind about it. I agreed with some of the following ideas before I read much about them; for these, the expert consensus reinforced my prior worldview. But for most, I had to be persuaded. Many ideas are genuinely surprising, and one needs…
The ‘Signal-test’ The trouble with creating on the side is that often you get overwhelmed by the amount of things there are to do. Instead of taking action, you look at the to-do list, scratch your head, panic a bit, and faff around until time has run out. Because you’re in this never-ending state of…
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