...Multitasking as a way of getting more out of our time without making tradeoffs doesn’t work. The tradeoff in that case is often not doing anything particularly well. If you answer emails when you’re with your kids or friends, you’re not really focusing on either. Your emails are banal and the people you are with feel unimportant. Even if we try to find ways around fundamental constraints, the tradeoffs show up somewhere...
...The paths that lead to new ideas tend to look unpromising. If they looked promising, other people would already have explored them. How do the people who do great work discover these paths that others overlook? The popular story is that they simply have better vision: because they're so talented, they see paths that others miss. But if you look at the way great discoveries are made, that's not what happens. Darwin didn't pay closer attention to individual species than other people because he saw that this would lead to great discoveries, and they didn't. He was just really, really interested in such things. Darwin couldn't turn it off. He didn't discover the hidden paths that they did because they seemed promising, but because they couldn't help it. That's what allowed them to follow paths that someone who was merely ambitious would have ignored...
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...It doesn’t matter to them that you have 100 tops to serve in the next hour. It doesn’t matter that the last week’s worth of customers all left happy. To this customer, there’s just this one time...
...Considering survivorship bias when presented with examples of success is difficult. It is not instinctive to pause, reflect, and think through what the base rate odds of success are and whether you’re looking at an outlier or the expected outcome. And yet if you don’t know the real odds, if you don’t know if what you’re looking at is an example of survivorship bias, then you’ve got a blind spot...
...6 Secrets to Make You a Smarter Investor...
...My benchmark dishes are usually iconic dishes that represent their genre, and can give me a bit of insight into the restaurant or bar’s philosophy and style...
...the 3 breaks are physical, social, and spiritual(ish)...
...Reality is indifferent to our preferences. There is no such thing as a fair price. Stuff—life—costs what it costs. You either pay it or you don’t...
...Handwritten notes are a powerful tool for encrypting embodied cognition and in turn supporting the brain’s capacity for retrieval of information. And secondly, when you take notes by hand, your hands create a robust external memory storage: your notebook...
...Feeling angry these days? New research suggests that a good night of sleep may be just what you need...
...Productive is the skill of getting the right things done, so that we accomplish what we set out to do in the first place. The work that matters...
...Most people get bogged down in linear opportunities. Be willing to let small opportunities go to focus on potential step changes...
...Whenever things quiet down for a minute and finally start clicking; whenever a conversation with family and friends leaves you bathed in an intoxicating glow; whenever you find yourself stirred by an unexpected moment of beauty; drink it in...
...The less rigid we are in our thinking, the more open minded, creative and innovative we become...
...Often, what we care about is the work done, not how long it took to do it...
...We believe that couples often behave as though there is a set limit on the amount of ambition that can be contained within one union. Sometimes this limit is clearly articulated; sometimes it is unspoken, and the ambition can be distributed in different ways...
...Excavation and organization isn’t sexy or glamorous. But it can be liberating. It can be freeing. Once you’ve put in the work on cleaning things up (and admittedly that can take some time!), you’ll be able to focus on the things that really matter to you...
...When you sort of commit, you’re likely to fall...
...Its aim is to make you have 100% trust in a system for collecting tasks, ideas, and projects...
