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#1 Team Success: I’ve noticed that the corporate world favors the complex over the simple - especially when it comes to building high-performing teams and culture. Recent research at google found that the best ideas came from teams that exhibit: “equality, generosity, curiosity toward the ideas of your teammates, empathy, and emotional intelligence.” Seems obvious, but most companies rather hire on past experience.
#2 Positivity: Speaking of shoddy corporate ideas, a story of a regular guy named Nick and how he helped take down shoddy research on a magical positivity ratio that sounded like it made sense, but was not backed by science.
#3 Expiring Knowledge: I have tried to dramatically cut down on expiring knowledge (goals - zero news consumption except through word of mouth) and read more from the past.
#4 More men than women: This Washington Post piece was interesting both for its use of visual storytelling and the story itself. On the imbalance of millions more men in China and India and what they has done to drive up the literal price of brides (brideprice) and all sorts of other unintended consequences such as importing women to marry men in China.
#5 Work (Things I Wrote): As I’ve been self-employed over the past year, I have been fascinated with how many people have asked me how I like “not working” or if I will ever “get serious” and re-enter the workforce. By workforce, they mean high-paying full-time jobs. We have an obsessive focus in the US (and likely the world) around the magical pursuit of work as a way to solve all our problems. I wrote this as an attempt to make sense of the unintended consequences of our narrow conception and obsession with work.
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