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Books and Articles we believe are important

How to write better emails

...Emphasize text with bold/underlined font...Use specific dates instead of yesterday, tomorrow etc...Use links for references...Structure long messages...Be specific on what you request from whom...

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One at a time, over and over

...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...

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Survivorship Bias: The Tale of Forgotten Failures

...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...

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It Costs What It Costs

...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...

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The benefits of note-taking by hand

...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...

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How To Be Successful

...Most people get bogged down in linear opportunities. Be willing to let small opportunities go to focus on potential step changes...

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Fill Up Your Canteen

...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...

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How Much Ambition Can a Marriage Sustain?

...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...

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Keys on the ground

...It’s easy to get excited about half the system, but real change and real benefit only happen when both pieces are working together...

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