Posts
All the articles I've posted.
How to make any piece of writing interesting
Momentum, part 1: a reader is a car going uphill, and a piece that stops pressing the pedal loses them.
The strategy that beats the average every time
Decision-making series 3: the Martingale strategy looks unbeatable and bankrupts you anyway. The three mistakes to avoid when you can't know the odds.
The success equation for knowledge and confidence
Decision-making series 2: the Kelly criterion says your return can never beat the accuracy of your information, so bet in proportion to what you actually know.
Why studying more makes you dumber
Decision-making series 1: more information didn't make expert racing analysts any more accurate. It only made them more sure they were right.
One question that kills fear
Fear is what drags you back into a fixed mindset. One question pulls you out of it, and it works on the way out of a bad day too.
How to live doing only what you're good at
Three ways to work your circle of competence: map it honestly, build it deeper instead of wider, and pay someone else for everything outside it.
How to negotiate with nonviolent communication
Three everyday uses for nonviolent communication: leading a negotiation with empathy, thanking someone so they feel it, and turning work you resent into work you chose.
Resolving conflict with nonviolent communication
Nonviolent communication splits a position into four parts, observation, feeling, need and request, and that structure is what turns a fight into something you can settle.
Good writing always has a purpose - 1
Every piece of writing exists to change its reader in one specific way, and writing that change down as a single sentence gives you the purpose statement.
How to persuade in two words
The second half of Blair Warren's course cuts persuasion down to two words, validate and fascinate, and explains why correcting someone always backfires.