Tag: advice
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Treat your to-read pile like a river – ”To return to information overload: this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it).” // Be comfortable with…
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When you meet a new person in your field, one easy small talk question to ask them is: “if you were [insert your company name here], what would you do?” It gets you some free consulting, lets someone talk about themselves and things they know, and, you know, just gives you something to talk about…
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Slowing Down – How to avoid burnout as you get more successful at life.
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“Executize this” -> “write this for someone who doesn’t care about the topic but needs to deal with it for their job.”
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How I Use Claude – “Claude is really good at helping here, mostly because thinking quickly saturates: when you’ve thought about a problem for five minutes, you’ve had all the thoughts you’re gonna have, and it’s time to talk to someone else. Claude lets me sample fresh perspectives and possible actions I had not thought…
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One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood – GPT5: “Phones are not the root cause; they’re the symptom of a constrained, over-supervised childhood. The solution isn’t banning devices but giving kids freedom back: unsupervised play, local friends, independence. If parents want kids off screens, they must open the door–literally–and rebuild the conditions that once…
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Don’t kill your darlings, put them in the dead pool
Here is some (book) writing pedantry for business book writing. Of course, the way to write anything is to “just start writing.” For some people, this works. For most, the question is, “yes, but how ‘just start writing’?” That is, how do you start with a blank screen/blank sheet of paper? For me, I start…
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How to increase your surface area for luck – “One distinguishing feature I’ve noticed among people who are unusually successful is that they just try a lot of stuff – socially, intellectually, professionally. It’s the rate of experimentation, the number of shots on goal, that provides the magic, not the percentage of successes, which might…
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The more senior engineers get, the more results matter – “as you become more senior, you’re increasingly graded on results. Interns are graded on effort.”
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A consumption basket approach to measuring AI progress – “In contrast, actual human users typically deploy AIs to help them with relatively easy problems. They use AIs for (standard) legal advice, to help with the homework, to plot travel plans, to help modify a recipe, as a therapist or advisor, and so on. You could…
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How to Fix Your Context – Lots to digest in here.
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‘But I’m not creative’: The role of creativity and connection in content design – An overlooked part of creating: establish your taste in things and apply it to your work. When working with (editing) others, figuring out what their taste is, and apply it to their work.
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6 Fixes For Your Solo TTRPG Campaign –
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Nine Rules for Evaluating New Technology – It should be cheaper, better, and not cause a lot of bullshit.
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Reinvent the Wheel – ”Reinvent for insight. Reuse for impact.”
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How to Lead an All-Hands After Delivering Bad News – “Create a shared mental model to make sure your team understands what the new context means for how they work together.”
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The luxury of saying no. – “Most people don’t get to say no. Not really. They’re not debating whether to use AI on principle. They’re trying to figure out how to keep their job without surrendering their judgment or drowning in tasks that keep multiplying while headcount shrinks. For most people, using an LLM isn’t…
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28 slightly rude notes on writing – by Adam Mastroianni – ”Somehow, whenever I finish a draft, my first few paragraphs almost always contain ideas that were necessary for writing the rest of the piece, but that aren’t necessary for understanding it.” // Lower down, that first part to delete is called “the windup.” I…
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Has DOGE missed its opportunity? – This is general advice for digital transformation, too. // And, on the actual focus,I mean: who could have predicted this outcome…
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