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The lifeguard hack
Who am I to walk up to someone at a party and introduce myself? Who are you to start a new project? Who are they to give a talk on the main stage? Donât raise your handâsomeone else might have a better question. Donât ship that work, itâs not ready⌠There are endless excuses, comparisons and reasons to hold back. Unless⌠Unless youâre on lifeguard duty and someone is drowning. In thatâŚ
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Do you feel rich?
Do you feel rich?
Itâs not the same as being rich. Rich is always relative. Compared to your great-grandparents, weâre impossibly, supernaturally rich. We have access to information and technology that was unimagined a century ago. At the same time, compared to someone ten miles away or ten years in the future, weâre way behind. Two people with precisely the same resources and options might answer the questionâŚ
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Perhaps it's worth throwing it out today
Perhaps itâs worth throwing it out today
If youâre considering putting an unmarked key into a drawer filled with keys, youâre better off simply throwing it out instead. Not only wonât you be able to find that unmarked key when you need it, but youâve just made it more difficult to sort the other keys as well. We hesitate to embrace or announce failure right now, preferring to put it off to some indeterminate date in the future. ButâŚ
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Very good at a simple game
Very good at a simple game
Outsized rewards go to people who figure out how to master a skill or a point of view, and then commit to doing it again and again. This insight helps us with two things: if you want a certain kind of success, it will require obsession plus the good luck to find the right thing to obsess about. be careful not to confuse being very good at a simple game with character or wisdom or goodâŚ
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Accuracy and precision
Theyâre not the same. Precision brings granularity to measurement. You can drive around 50 miles an hour, or you can drive 54.7 miles an hour with precision. But accuracy is how we describe doing what we intended to do. Driving in the wrong direction with precision isnât much help, when accuracy in describing the goal would have been a better plan. Most organizations spend their time onâŚ
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Do you have a tuner?
Do you have a tuner?
Piano tuners have a vital job⌠and very few pianists do that work themselves. Who maintains your tools? Perhaps itâs a computer with all the software that goes with it. Do you have a world-class pro, someone who is up-to-date, skilled, innovative and empathic making sure that theyâre working well? Or are you doing it yourself, muddling through? If we have mediocre tools, why should we expectâŚ
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Write a better spec
Write a better spec
If youâre asking someone to work for you, help you or advise you, it turns out that being specific about what success looks like is an obvious way to get better results. If everyone can agree on what success looks like, youâre more likely to achieve it. And yet⌠And yet we prefer to say, âIâll know it when I see it.â Weâre vague, murky or even contradictory about what we want. The reason isâŚ
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Blaming the weather is a trap
Blaming the weather is a trap
âIf it were only nicer out, Iâd be happier.â Thatâs just a step away from, âIf the current world crisis would abate, then Iâd be able to concentrate.â Which is not that far from, âIf you would simply behave, I wouldnât be upset.â When we focus on external forces and tie them directly to our state of mind, weâre giving up agency. The hard-won privilege of being in control of our own status andâŚ
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And when is the shift over?
And when is the shift over?
If you sell your time as the measure of the work you do, the work is over when the shift ends. Clock in, clock out. If you sell your output as the measure of the work, your work is over when the inbox is empty. Once youâve made all the pizzas that were ordered, youâre done. But more and more, our work can be endless. One more sales call might lead to one more sale. One more cycle of innovationâŚ
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"And then what happens"
âAnd then what happensâ
Weâre not very good at predicting the future. Weâre very good at being aware of the urgency of the moment, and familiar with our need to deal with emergencies. Before we react, though, it might be worth asking âand then what happens,â five times. Five steps from here to there⌠If any of the steps involve, âand then a miracle happens,â or âweâll deal with that later,â it might be worth takingâŚ
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The way things are
The way things are
Thatâs how culture perpetuates injustice and indignity. Because thatâs just the way things are around here. But the status quo isnât permanent. The world doesnât stay the way it was. It changes. And itâs been changing faster than ever. It doesnât change because the status quo sub-committee had a meeting and decided to change it. It changes when someone decides that the way things are aroundâŚ
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Fear of Strangers
Why are we more likely to take off our masks or avoid social distancing with a group of friends at a party instead of strangers on the train? Why do we drive more carefully in a new neighborhood instead of near our home? Why trust the advice of a doctor who looks like us, or went to the same school we did? Our evolved preference for familiarity often backfires. There are many signals that giveâŚ
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On schedule
We get a huge benefit from making a simple commitment: Donât miss deadlines. The benefit is that once we agree to the deadline, we donât have to worry about it anymore. We donât have to negotiate, come up with excuses or even stress about it. It wonât ship when itâs perfect. It will ship because we said it would. Once this is clear, the quality of what we ship goes way up. Instead ofâŚ
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Reality isn't optimised
Reality isnât optimised
Falsehoods, spin and legends can be tweaked and tested and changed to exactly match the dreams and desires of the people theyâre aimed at. This is why manipulative stories are so much stickier than what really happened. What reality has in its favor is that itâs generally resilient. Gravity doesnât care who believes in it. Itâs still here. Reblogged from: here
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In or out
Often overlooked is how uncomfortable it is to sit on a fence. Get in, or get out. Wasting time sitting on the fence wastes far more time and emotion than youâd expend committing to something. Reblogged from: here
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Limitless
Infinity is a great idea, but unless youâre doing math, itâs mostly an idea. Everything else in our world has limits. Itâs the limits that make it interesting, the limits that give us an edge to the box, something to leverage against. Instead of denying the existence of limits and the trade-offs that they bring with them, it might be helpful to begin with an understanding of what they are, orâŚ
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Marked cards
Itâs almost impossible to tell if a playing card is marked. But if you take ten cards and riffle them, you can tell instantly. The changes from the back of one card to another jump out at you. Itâs difficult to tell where we are if we only have a few data pointsâsooner or later, anywhere feels normal. The key question is, âcompared to what?â On the other hand, if all youâve got is all youâveâŚ
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