To Produce Great Work, You Must Consume Great Work
“The consumers’ philosophy is simple: if you want to increase the quality of your work — your output — you must increase the level of your inputs.”
Category: Career Growth
How Cancelling Everyone’s Student Debt Could Help the Economy
“If the government were to forgive all the student debt it owns (which makes up more than 90 percent of all outstanding student debt), and bought out all privat...
Craftsmanship Is the Alternative to the Four-Hour Work Week
“To think of a business as a series of hacks and transactional relationships, you’ll never amass the expertise that your future self and future businesses need ...
Your Systems Are More Important Than Your Goals
“Goals are good for planning your progress and systems are good for actually making progress.”
How to Use Game Theory to Win a Negotiation
“If you’re trying to win in a negotiation you want to try and find ways to make it so that you are more patient than the other person — that is you have less to...
The Most Confident Phrase You Can Say in a Presentation
“No one has all the answers, and pretending you do doesn’t make you look confident, it makes you look a fool.”
We Need More Dialogue and Less Debate
“Dialogue reveals assumptions for reevaluation. Debate defends assumptions as truth.”
How to Turn People into Customers
“If you want to increase your conversions, you’ve got to stop using the same message to the same people.”
How to Make People Remember Your Brand
“We capture a tiny fraction of what happens to us. Since our memory comprises a selection of moments, there’s the possibility of an event being remembered very ...
Most Managers Are Scared to Talk to Their Employees
“A full 69% of respondents said that they found ‘communicating in general’ to be the hardest part about communicating with employees.”