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Classic essays on productivity, collaboration, and maximizing talent — plus guides for modern remote teams.
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100 ways to get more done
A friend recently asked us what he could do to reduce procrastination and be more effective. We gave him a few tips but mentioned that there are “hundreds of...
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Meeting hack: avoid solutions
If I hold a meeting to solve a particular problem, most will show up with a potential solution. Suggestions will be proposed early in the meeting, followed b...
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Hierarchies Kill
Flat, hierarchy-free structures are both idealized and analyzed among those who think about work. Jason Fried of 37signals, at the top of our blogroll, recen...
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When to quit
If you’re bored and there’s nothing you can do to increase the difficulty of your job, you need to quit. Try to take on more responsibility or set higher sta...
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Five minutes to lifelong job satisfaction
Is it hard to increase somebody’s job satisfaction? It certainly seems that way, considering how much effort companies put into mitigating dissatisfaction.
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Leadership
Here is John Lilly, former CEO of Mozilla, on the difference between leadership and management:
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The Tragedy of the Interruption Junkie
You just found out that your friend has a gambling problem.
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Hire based on interest, not credentials
People tend to avoid costly errors rather than aim for finding the truth when making decisions [1]. Applied to recruiting, employers might tend to avoid hiri...
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The two stupidest things you could say at work
- "Me too... I do not have a specific point to raise, rather I wish to restate the existing proposition in order to 1) show that I'm paying attention; and, 2...
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Avoid "success theatre"
If you're charismatic you can get resources for anything and you can ship stuff and get people to use it and then you can engage in a tonne of what I call su...
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Parallel tasks, focus, and shorter cycles
Caleb Elston writes of the culture of “serial”-tasking at Yobongo, raising the point that when we attempt to handle many tasks in parallel, we may irrational...
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Run regular post-mortems
In Sharks are Dangerous, 2 Ash referred to the policy of revisiting failed acquisitions at Johnson & Johnson. I thought it was worth quoting Munger’s descrip...
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Sharks are Dangerous
Some species of shark are obligate ram ventilators—having lost the muscles required to pump water through their gills, they must keep moving in order not to ...