Behold: “I’m a huge procrastinator and a fairly lazy person. Being lazy makes me more efficient, because I try to find ways that I can do the best work in the most minimal amount of time. I also know that… Continue Reading
I had seen that Ricardo Semler TED Talk before and remember thinking it was good, but it wasn’t necessarily one of the TED Talks that stays with you for a long time (at least for me). Then I came across… 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
You can define the idea of “getting things done,” as this article does, as the intersection of “motivation” and “willpower.” The idea of willpower is actually a finite resource — which scientists and researchers only really have known in the last decade… Continue Reading
I’ve written about topics akin to this a few different times — for example, 82 percent of managerial hires are probably the wrong one and intrinsic motivation isn’t really that well-understood and maybe leadership’s focus should be on empathy — and now… Continue Reading
There’s a broad idea called ‘gamification’ — essentially, turning something fairly tangible (education, business) into a game that can be tracked and lead to rewards. It’s obviously a controversial approach and the data on it is a little bit not all… Continue Reading
There’s a profile of Mark Zuckerberg in The Wall Street Journal that’s getting some attention for a couple of different reasons: first off, Zuckerberg doesn’t do profiles very often, so the base idea is rare. Second off, it’s a wide-ranging portrait of… Continue Reading