Organizational psychologist Niro Sivanathan offers a fascinating lesson on the “dilution effect,” a cognitive quirk that weakens our strongest cases — and reveals why brevity is the true soul of persuasion.
Month: February 2021
[Link] Bezos’s email to Amazon employees
Read it here
You can hide unclear thinking in a slide deck; you can’t hide unclear thinking in a narrative memo
[Learning] Life Lessons from 3 centenarians
Love their perspectives, their sense of humor & their view on regrets.
[Music]: Violinist Csongor Korossy plays Schindler’s List in Budapest
Surreal.
[Link]: Chasing the Cool Kids, Seth Godin
Just read the entire thing.
[Link]: There is Nothing Natural About the Way We Work
That feeling of deep satisfaction at the end of a working day is rare for many workers across the world. We are alienated, and have been for centuries. We have to work in order to survive, but while we are told to love what we do and that our workplaces are our families, meaningful work that also pays the bills is harder and harder to come by.
A fascinating article in Vice.
Feel Like Going Home
The perfect tune to wind down from the otherwise exhausting day.
[QOTD] from Cal Newport
Do less, do what you do better, don’t get distracted along the way.
Cal Newport, blogging about Michael Lewis’s podcast conversation with Tim Ferris
[Link]: How to Make Your Fear of Public Speaking Work for You
Dr. Nick Morgan borrows a couple ideas from neuroscience:
We tend to identify ourselves with our feelings, so that controlling or eliminating them seems like a strange, perhaps Machiavellian, thing to do.
[Link] Baidu Research 10 Tech Trends in 2021
I’m curious to see how this pans out in a year from now. Are these Baidu Research trends a global or a local phenomenon?
Their 2020 innovations blog also makes for interesting reading.