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No One Cares As Much As You Do (Newsletter 043)
Your ambitions exceed your abilities not because of any failing on your part, but because everyone is focused on their own priorities.
Decision-making
These posts cover how we make decisions, and how to make better decisions.
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Why Aren't More Pharma Companies Non-Profits? (Newsletter 042)
Is it possible for a company's successful pursuit of long-term profitability to create incentives that are harmful for their customers and for society as a whole?
Guest Posts
Boring is Good (by Hualong Yang)
Boringness means something repetitive, stable, and subject to a cycle. Humans tend to chase change and downplay the unchanging.
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If You Don't Know The Costs Of Your Solution, You're Part Of The Problem (Newsletter 040)
Here's where things get difficult fast: identifying which problems are worth focusing on, and which solutions are worth pursuing among many possible approaches.
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Who Are The Most Cost-Effective Employees? (Newsletter 039)
It is economically rational for companies to consider their total costs when hiring and promoting employees.
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Try Not Telling People You're An Expert (Newsletter 038)
The high expectations of others are valuable if we force ourselves to live up to them. But beware of giving in to the temptation to believe others' expectations without doing the hard work necessary to earn them.
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Can We Pay Everyone The Same Salary? (Newsletter 037)
The recommended living wage slightly exceeds today's actual median household income. This raises some interesting questions.
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How To Reliably Identify A Fool (Newsletter 036)
Much of success in life comes from choosing the right pursuits at the right time.
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Can You Think Your Way To Success? (Newsletter 034)
One of the spookiest things I ever did was write down on a single piece of paper a number of life goals.
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Advice For New Managers: Develop Principles (Newsletter 033)
Advice from individuals, journalists, and experts is more than not useful. It's downright harmful, at least in the sense that it distracts you from focusing on what you could be more profitably doing.
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On Beginnings ... And Endings (Newsletter 032)
In addition to the choice to affirmatively do something, our actions are a choice not to do everything else we could have done that day at that moment.
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Do You Have A "More" Mindset? (Newsletter 031)
Although striving for material progress served humanity well for centuries by raising us out of widespread poverty into wealth, today it may be causing more harm than good.