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Tag Archives: shared
Repair and Remain: How to do the slow, hard, good work of staying put by Kurt Armstrong [Shared]
Repair and Remain: How to do the slow, hard, good work of staying put by Kurt Armstrong Let’s say time comes to gut and renovate your bathroom: I can help you with that—demolition, framing, reworking the plumbing, moving some electrical, … Continue reading
The 4 Types of Luck by Sahil Bloom [Shared]
The 4 Types of Luck by Sahil Bloom The 4 Types of Luck In 1978, a neurologist named Dr. James Austin published a book entitled Chase, Chance, & Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty. In it, Dr. Austin proposed that … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Creativity, Education, Shared
Tagged advice, awareness, career, luck, motion, shared, Shared Items, think, thinking, uniqueness, work
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Start with the Jar: How to understand your capacity via Turtle’s Pace [Shared]
Start with the Jar: How to understand your capacity via Turtle’s Pace Optimism is dangerous, especially when it comes to planning our goals. If we underestimate the effort of an endeavor, we set ourselves up for failure. When we fail … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Career Tips, Creativity, Education, Tips
Tagged advice, capacity, career, life, planning, schedule, scheduling, shared, work
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How To Be More Intelligent 101 via Nicholas Bate [Shared]
How To Be More Intelligent 101 via Nicholas Bate 1. Read staggering amounts, regularly returning to the classics both fiction and non-fiction. 2. Write your own notes of your daily learnings aiming for super concise summaries. In that way you … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Tips
Tagged advice, creative, creativity, intelligence, intelligent, pdf, shared, thinking
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber [Shared]
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber Full text of book is available in several formats on the web page. In the spring of 2013, I unwittingly set off a very minor international sensation. It all began when I was … Continue reading
The Art of Finishing via Bytedrum [Shared]
A concept for life in genreal, not just coding. – Douglas The Art of Finishing via Bytedrum “It’s a quiet Saturday afternoon. I’ve carved out a few precious hours for coding, armed with a steaming cup of coffee and the … Continue reading
Be A Thermostat, Not A Thermometer via Lara Hogan [Shared]
Be A Thermostat, Not A Thermometer via Lara Hogan [Shared] As I’ve learned more about how humans interact with one another at work, I’ve been repeatedly reminded that we are very easily influenced by the mood of those around us. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Career Tips, Education, Shared
Tagged career, conflict, emotions, job, mood, resolution, shared, thermometer, thermostat, work
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Building a Creativity Kanban via Will Patrick [Shared]
Building a Creativity Kanban via Will Patrick [Shared] To get more creative work done, think like a car manufacturer. A system for optimising the creative process and breaking through your barriers. Always Be Shipping Have you made anything lately? Have … Continue reading
Employees Are Sick of Being Asked to Make Moral Compromises via Harvard Business Review [Shared]
Employees Are Sick of Being Asked to Make Moral Compromises via Harvard Business Review Summary. Moral injury is experienced as a trauma response to witnessing or participating in workplace behaviors that contradict one’s moral beliefs in high-stakes situations and … Continue reading
Feeling unfulfilled or stuck at work? 3 ways to help you get unstuck via Ideas.Ted.Com [Shared]
Feeling unfulfilled or stuck at work? 3 ways to help you get unstuck via Ideas.Ted.Com [Shared] Today, so many of us are wishing to safeguard ourselves — and our careers — against uncertainty. But how do we do this in … Continue reading