During the summers of my high school years in suburban Georgia, my friend and I would fill the time by randomly walking into local establishments asking for odd jobs. It was a great way as a studen…
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It may never get any easier, but it’s always worth it.
Judgment—the ability to combine personal qualities with relevant knowledge and experience to form opinions and make decisions—is “the core of exemplary leadership,” according to Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis (the authors of Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls). It is…
"...Google's people analytics experts had been studying how to onboard new hires effectively. They came back with a list of tips. Here’s the one that jumped…
When we learn new things from grappling with problems, it is natural for us to want to share those learnings with others, in hopes that they will face similar challenges with less of a struggle. How do those well-intended new ideas so often evolve into movements that seem to…
There is no fixed way of getting rich for anyone. Check out 29 useful tips of how to get rich without being lucky shared by Naval Ravikant.
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Einstein was a student long before he became a celebrity. There is a lot to glean from his education and unique approach to learning.
Apprenticeships beat schooling. Here's why they're a superior method for learning, and how you can apply this to the things you want to master.
Leverage mental models to think better. First Principles Thinking is an excellent model for critical thinking. This post looks at how to practice First Principles Thinking with lots of examples.
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The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition.
A small, friendly device you put museum objects on to hear their stories... It's history that speaks for itself!
The world is much more complex than we realise. The Cobra Effect is when an attempted solution results in unintended consequences.
Nominations for fields that are not being researched as much as they should be
This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge.
Each and every day we eat, we sleep, we read, we brush our teeth. So why haven't we all become world-class masters of eating, sleeping, reading, and teeth-brushing?
In tech we have huge bias for Execution — building things and launching them fast and with the right quality. A million underwhelming…
Being able to sustain focus is a key to success in work and study. Here's how you can increase your mental stamina with these five strategies.
I listened to 51+ episodes of How I Built This. Here's what I learned about what successful companies have in common.
Activating more parts of your brain helps stuff stick.
Management teams are responsible for making sense of complex questions. Maybe it’s estimating how much a market will grow next year, or finding the best strategy to beat a competitor. One popular approach for navigating these questions is turning to the “wisdom of crowds” –…
Open new routes to successful conversations with colleagues, friends, and family.
There are two interesting ways to solve a problem, find a startup or even write a blog post. You can lump two previously disparate categories into one. Or you can split a previously coherent catego…
Learn more about the data analytics industry, dbt Cloud and dbt Core, as well as company news and updates.
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With a bit of effort, you can learn a new skill in less time than you thought. Here’s the guide for how to go all in.
or, Competitive Research the Creative Founder Way For a long time, I’ve been disappointed by competitive research approaches. Most strike me as a bunch of bumbling around and seeing what you see… s…
Memorize anything forever, say Silicon Valley's true believers.
A little more than a year ago, a friend took me for lunch in downtown Toronto, and we talked mostly about what we’d been reading. Immediately afterward she marched me to a nearby bookstore and insisted I buy Cal Newport’s Deep Work. She was the second person that week to…
Should we generalize or specialize? This article explores how Shakespeare and Da Vinci excelled by branching out from their core competencies.
A leading computer scientist says it’s “educability,” not intelligence, that matters most.