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Feb 2

New magic trick! Ask the person who asks to meet what they want to talk about and *POOF* request disappears.

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Nov 12, 2020

I learned a magic trick today! Ask the person who Slacks you a request to send you an email instead and **POOF** request disappears.

Jan 31

i find they get miscategorized as "too nice" or "people pleasy" or "not savvy" when in reality those things might be related but they can also be totally orthogonal

generous people are often underestimated

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@joulee

Jan 30

AI generated art seems magical today, much as how photography must have seemed magical then. What happened to the magic? We pulled out the oldest human trick we know: taking it for granted. We value what is hard and rare. AI will not change that, it will only change our tastes.

Jan 27

what’s the cognitive bias where you over-complicate out of boredom

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

Jan 27

🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🙋🏿‍♀️If you want to come to a free workshop on writing a brag doc/personal press release? We’ll produce a concise artifact that articulates the impact you had at your current/former company and highlights the qualities that make you special.

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for the non-productive afternoon

me: mmm ya it's a Nora Ephron Day Balaji: 👻

Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution | Meaningness

How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.

The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

Cultivating depth and stillness in research

The Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You Down

Digital theorist Cal Newport is arguing for a new way to work.

woke up this morning in the m00d to write, here's what I'm reading as inspo. wanna guess the topic?

also plz click these emoji's (they're real counters!) and help me win a bet about how high we can get them to go 🚀

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i'm honestly really obsessed with what we did here check it out! twitter.com/hiconstellate/…

i'm honestly really obsessed with what we did here check it out!

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@hiconstellate

“Love the mission but what does Constellate do?!” Maybe this’ll help?

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There is a math supplement to this post where I build some intuition on the different probability distributions involved. If you are interested, read that later.Why variance matters

"If one team member constantly points out things as “weird”, something great but weird will get cut out."

"Executive attention often kills creativity. Ideally, the executives are not interested in the project."

"Here are some signs that you’ve asked for variance from a team that’s not ready for it: ...They spend their time philosophizing, i.e. “what does ‘good’ mean for this project?”"

"A high variance team can only surprise you a couple of times a year."

"If this succeeds, it will be huge. But that is low probability. It will most likely fail. The right people for a high variance project will be thrilled by this proposition. And the rest will wisely choose something else."

some favorite quotes: "You only need one or two people in this (high variance) category. The rest of the team needs to contribute with good, dependable work, and not get in the way with unproductive opinions."

this is the kind of nuanced stuff we need to to make sense of in our organizations to do truly spectacular work. and this is the kind of clarifying and opinionated take we need to do it! thank you

@sebasbensu

blog.sbensu.com

High Variance Management

Use AI to explore the wisdom of The Huberman Lab.

i think my most controversial belief is that word clouds are kinda awesome

My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character

Jan 22

if you're going to go for 3 (and most strangers DM'ing strangers on the internet are), your best bet is to make them feel like 1-you're a person they want to help (kind, self-and-context-aware, in a time of real need, etc.) 2-they're gunna get a ton of warm & fuzzies out of it

If you're not directly working with someone on something and you want their time, there's only 3 reasons they'll get on a call with you 1-they owe you something from a past life 2-they want you to owe them something in the future 3-pure benevolvence

IMO "doing it you way" works best if you're a total n00b or an expert. when you're in between those two states, studying/copy others and making alts is the way to go.

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for showing me what good looks like 💜

if you only get to ask an expert one question, i think asking them for their favorite examples of x is your best bet

tedgioia.substack.com

These methods have helped me enormously—and can save you much heartache and anxiety

Jan 19

the number of legit companies that ask me to send them my SSN over email (mostly to issue 1099s) is really disappointing and frankly confusing.