Daily Reads:
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Bob Ewin: How to find good stories. I’ve read the story of William Benz & Leonard Read, and Gary Klein’s neonatal nurse before, and drew a blank when reading it on this link. No, my memory isn’t as good with recall as I think it is, which is why Obsidian is helpful now.
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The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon: once something comes into our attention, we see it all the time (like a Red Camry or a specific brand of shoes). Reminds me of the gorilla experiment, quite the opposite of this phenomenon?
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The Comfort Crisis: The tendency of humans to always scan our environment for problems, regardless of how safe and perfect that environment is.
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Tobias Rose-Stockwell is the author of Outrage Machine, and in this interview brings the topic squarely back to ‘attention’. It turns out that we have a natural disposition to focus on negatively-valenced information
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David Cain’s ideas about future gifts left to yourself, and thinking in blocks are small enough to implement now.
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Kaiser Fung has an update to this Ethics in data science questions. Worth grappling with.
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Steve Blank tells the story behind the secret history of Silicon Valley. A fascinating storyteller.
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How to move an elephant: The Flux Review’s post this week talks about the space to hold conversations in a fearless, nuanced manner – most often impossible.
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A better way to divide the pie Some ideas on better negotiations
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Subtraction, rather than addition, for better problem solving
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A recent Wordsmith newsletter that had a picture of him titled "Money on the Table" and triggered some memories from a time I’ve put out of my mind.
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Savage Chickens for Inspiration
QOTD:
“I was wise enough to never grow up, while fooling most people into believing I had.” – Margaret Mead