Category: Reading List
-
Reading List: Week 5, January 2023
I don’t believe I have the ability to say what is going to work. Rather, I try to eliminate what’s not going to work. I think being successful is just about not making mistakes. It’s not about having correct judgment. It’s about avoiding incorrect judgments.The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
-
Reading List: Week 4, June 2022
A raccoon wearing formal clothes, wearing a tophat and holding a cane. The raccoon is holding a garbage bag. Oil painting in the style of Rembrandt.Google Research Team
-
Reading List: Week 4, June 2022
For learning to happen, there must be a sufficient supply of knowledge to make successfully acquiring skills possible. At the same time, if there’s no demand to use that knowledge learning is often superficial.Scott H. Young
-
Reading List: Week 3, June 2022
Our tendency to overestimate how much attention people are paying to us is a result of seeing our own perspective as the only perspective. If we’re feeling a strong emotion, we assume other people care about how we feel as much as we do.Farnam Street
-
Reading List: Week 1, June 2022
The most important thing about writing is discovering novel and non-trivial truths, and determining which of your truths is most important—then imposing order, hierarchy, and linearity—through judgment, decisiveness, and will.Justin Murphy
-
Reading List: Week 5, May 2022
It is crucial to focus on the similarities and the goal that brought you together, and not on the differences. We should always keep in mind the contributions we can make and the impact and difference we can bring. And, most importantly, we should never be afraid of speaking up.Moreangels Mbizah
-
Reading List: Week 4, May 2022
Your time and space are limited. Remove, give away, throw out things in your life that dont spark joy any longer in order to make room for those that do.Kevin Kelly
-
Reading List: Week 1, April 2022
By denaturalising everyday professional practice and by throwing surprise into the mix, purposeful serendipity is therefore perhaps another way of emphasising the serious playfulness of successful information discovery: the harnessing of surprise, delight and unexpectedness in the everyday.Luke Tredinnick, Claire Laybats
-
Reading List: Week 5, March 2022
So take some time at the beginning to clarify: what is it that you intend to learn? Just like in traditional Project Management, it’s hard to do something well if you don’t define first what “doing well” looks like.Matthias Frank