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Recovering from overwhelm with @chrisbowler
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Sometimes the right answer is to look for new tools and techniques. But most of the time, the answer is to get out of the trenches and see things from the big view. If you bring old habits to new tools, you’ll just end up in the same place. Rarely is a new tool the
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Salvaging Bad Projects and Creating Customer Moments
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When people assess an experience, they tend to forget or ignore its length — a phenomenon called “duration neglect.” Instead, they seem to rate the experience based on two key moments: (1) the best or worst moment, known as the “peak”; and (2) the ending. Psychologists call it the “peak-end rule.” – The Power of
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Did you forget how to read?
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Interesting article on the difficultly we have with reading now. Because of the distractedness that we engage in, it’s so hard to focus on a book. One of the best things to happen to me in the last 12 months was that the iOS 11 update made my 6S Plus so slow and so battery
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Do You Know How to Grow into Your Success?
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But then it gets hard. Rules change, markets change, the economy changes, and people with new ideas come along. If we haven’t been paying attention and adding to our knowledge and skills, we find ourselves getting cynical and resentful and frustrated. It affects our attitudes and our production. Over time, we end up feeling as
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It’s Time to Start Reading Above Your Weight Class
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you know the books where the words blur together and you can’t understand what’s happening? Those are the books a leader needs to read. Reading to lead or learn requires that you treat your brain like the muscle that it is–lifting the subjects with the most tension and weight. How To Digest Books Above Your
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Dealing with conflict well – assume the other side is smarter than you
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Dealing with conflict in a productive way is the greatest challenge we have as a society and as individuals. – PLAY NICE In Your Sandbox1 In conflict, we often resort mostly to name calling and thinking that the other side is stupid. It’s not going to work people. The other side is not stupid, in
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Slack is bad for you
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So many great quotes in this piece on Slack: slack empowers your worst people to overwhelm your best. It has that in common with the open office. It normalizes interruptions, multitasking, and distractions, implicitly permitting these things to happen IRL as well as online. It normalizes insanely short reply times for questions. In the slack
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What are you working for?
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We work our lives away to buy objects of luxury instead of enjoying the luxury of our time on earth. We should be yearning for free time to do what we want, not what we must. We should want time to do the things we like, not the things we dislike. Forget the desk job.
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Cal Newport and Techno-materialism
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Two new words for me: techno-materialism & techno-humanism The problem with techno-materialism is that just because a new technology was better than the old, or did something new and interesting, didn’t mean that it made us happier While he never says it, Newport, is talking about Any Benefit thinking again. The Any-Benefit Approach to Network
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Social Media does not equal a platform
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Today I would like to explain why I feel that if you are an author or artist, you DO NOT need social media in order to have “a platform.” Plus: I’ll tell you exactly what will make agents and publishers happy, even if you never touch social media. We all need a platform of some
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