Actually thinking for a second about what you do and why you do it — rather than just headlong racing into it — can actually make a huge difference in your success (even to teams believe this stuff is a “soft skill”). Continue Reading
I could probably write an entire book on this concept, but for right here and right now, I’ll limit it to a dinky little blog post. I’ve already written about “The Busy Trap” once (here), and when I repurposed that… Continue Reading
I wrote a little bit about the Dunning-Kruger effect once before, and now there’s an extension of it described in The Washington Post (based on this research paper). First, let’s talk about the experiment and what it was aiming to… Continue Reading
“Research shows that narcissism is higher in Western than non-Western countries, and suggests that narcissism levels have been steadily increasing among Western youth over the past few decades,” the authors write in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. You… Continue Reading
TED Talks, as a general concept, are fairly inspirational (or at least informative). I have the TED Roku channel for this exact reason: sometimes I just want to watch 2-3 in a row to help me contextualize an issue better.… Continue Reading
These seem like relevant skills to have, right? Continue Reading
In 2014, Americans left about 430 million vacation days on the table. For context on that, let’s assume a workday is 10 hours. That means 4.3 billion hours were left on the table, basically. You could drive from New York City… Continue Reading
Look at this chart, courtesy of here: That’s terrifying, no? Now look at this chart, courtesy of the same place: Now keep that “$16.5 billion” figure in your head and look at this third chart: Hm.