Daily Reads:
Steven Pressfield: Self-doubt Part 3.
Part 1 & Part 2 are also great reads
Gleb Tsipursky in Forbes: The damaging results of the Return To Work mandate are becoming clear ^1c5cf5
Nick Morgan: How to Lead with Socratic Questions
https://www.cascade.io/ The co-founders of this no-code analytics tool have a final post of their learning from the venture.
Another example of why I love Adam Mastroianni’s writing – How many people has Dolly Parton killed?
Tim Bray, writing about Alex Waterhouse-Hayward, an 80-year-old master photographer at work: Scanography.
Mary Flanagan: What if Wargames Could Be Something Else?
Mary L ‘Missy’ Cummings: What self driving cars tell us about AI risks
Ben Werdmuller: Always know your core value proposition
Markdown tips I learnt today for Obsidian:
- To share a link to [[2023-08-03 Links | Yesterday’s Links]] all I have to do is include a pipe operator inside the
[[syntax after the page ]] - Linking to a block inside a page, use a ‘^’ operator [[2023-08-04 Links#^1c5cf5 | linked above]]
- Linking to a heading inside a page, use the ‘#’ operator after the page inside the
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QOTD:
we need to disempower the Product Managers who insist on “improving” their offerings for reasons related to their career aspirations, not their customers’ experience. I loathe their assumption that the cost of the world retraining itself is zero. – Tim Bray
Music:
Sinead O’Connor & Willie Nelson: Don’t Give Up