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2021 Curated Short Form Round-up 2

2021 Curated Short Form Round-up 1

Bundling, unbundling, and re-bundling: understanding the cycle of progress

The Map Is Not the Territory: A painting of a pipe is not a pipe

The principal-agent problem: Why do drug cartels age poorly and what can we learn from them?

Hanlon's Razor: there's a friend in every stranger

Antifragility: save my child or my favorite coffee mug?

Circle of Competence: A little learning is a dangerous thing

Building a skeptic’s toolkit

Invert, always invert: The Mental Model of Inversion

The product-market fit we know and those we're learning about

Progress versus perfection: when to stay low-fi and when not

Acquiring accidental superpowers: the lesser known model of exaptation

The tension in leadership: exude confidence or nurture curiosity?

Fighting for control and responsibility: Four workplace personas

The productivity problem

The less common way to decide: looking at opportunity costs

Contrary to popular belief

Start with what can kill you: A way to persuade better

Carrying a specialist’s gut in a generalist’s world

Deciding between first mover or fast follower? Being the last mover may just be the best.

What you should think about the next time you set goals

Does the whole world agree with me? Or is it just my filter bubble?

The Value in Negative Thinking

The Power of Making Connections

Sunk costs and the true price of failure

Can rockets be recycled? The value of a defining a problem well in business and technology

(Why You’d Better) Ask Your Developer

The 0 to 1 manifesto: the entropy version