...The challenge of learning in the beginning is that you don’t know what to do. The challenge of learning in the end is that you think you already know what to do. It’s this latter difficulty that causes us to rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems that are encouraged through habit, not always because the old way is actually best...
...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...
...Nutrient-dense and sweet enough to satisfy even the youngest members of your household...
...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...
...If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse...
...6 Secrets to Make You a Smarter Investor...
...Even if you used non-HSA assets to cover your healthcare expenses and leave your HSA money undisturbed until age 65, you could pull the money out tax-free for any reason, provided you've saved your receipts for the healthcare expenses you covered out of pocket in the years before that...
...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...
...Begin thinking of how you will engineer the appropriate customer response at every step along the way...
...the 3 breaks are physical, social, and spiritual(ish)...
...This version turns greens and beans into a complete one-skillet supper...
...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...
...A risk is more likely to work out if you are seeking a reward you actually want. It sounds so obvious, but we often take risks just because we want change. And when we do that, we often lose, no matter what happens...
...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...
...If your goal is to look out for your loved ones, consider tackling these estate-planning additional jobs...
...But you don’t have to know the seventeenth step. You only have to know the first step. Because the first number is always 1...
...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...
...we generally disagree with the basic cooking instructions given on quinoa packages, which usually call for too much water, and might explain why you don’t like quinoa...
...Most people get bogged down in linear opportunities. Be willing to let small opportunities go to focus on potential step changes...
