Unlock Your Superpowers, Put Your Alter Egos to Work
Reading Time: 7 minutesWe encourage you to consciously and intentionally cultivate a toolkit of multiple alter egos to cope with, perform in, and master all kinds of situations in our lives and careers.
Luck = Outcome – Skill
Reading Time: 8 minutesHow do we take a rational view on where an activity falls along the skill-luck continuum? Time is the secret ingredient that reveals whether our success is a result of skill or luck.
Have You Won The Luckttery?
Reading Time: 10 minutesLuck is not a four-letter word. If we have a lucky start in life or work, it’s like we have won the luck-lottery. These windfalls make it easier for us to bend the arc of our life towards success.
Difficulty is What Wakes Up The Genius
Reading Time: 10 minutesWhat doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger. Strength can take the shape of resilience or antifragility. I explore strategies that make people and companies resilient, which with luck and time, turns into antifragility.
If They Jump in The Well Will You Too!?
Reading Time: 10 minutesStories that illustrate Mimetic Desire and some Anti-Mimetic food for thought as we enter the new year
What Makes Habits Durable?
Reading Time: 8 minutesI stopped writing this newsletter regularly. As a forcing function to restart, I reflect on what makes good habits durable.
The 10,000 Hour Rule (Part II)
Reading Time: 10 minutes10,000 hours of practice contribute only ~25% to mastery. In a time and energy scarce world, how do we get strategic about which skill to practice?
The 10,000 Hour Rule (Part I)
Reading Time: 6 minutes10,000 hours, the donkey rule and the importance of deliberate practice
Butterfly Effect
Reading Time: 7 minutesOne tiny event that changed the course of my life
The Karma of Work
Reading Time: 5 minutesA visual essay on ideas about work, that expand the definition of work from a 9 to 5 job, to anything we do that takes us forward