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#199 - Most pick being right. You pick being quick.
And don't forget to learn from it
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# 198 - The case against empathy
And link to my latest longform essay
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#196 - Choice and obligation
Difference between life that happens to you and life that you make happen
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#184 - “The bee came to sip the honey, but its feet got stuck to the honey pot...”
When the employee looks at the job strictly as a tool (Part 1 of 2 on employee-employer relationships)
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#173 - The negotiating trick few talk about
Understanding it decides what you get between the burden of obligation and the freedom of choice
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#167 - Skeptical and open-minded: operating in two modes at the workplace
Welcome to another new issue of Curiosity > Certainty👋 Some quick stock-taking to make this newsletter more useful for you.
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#158 - Something you may miss while managing a business transition
When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he swooped in like a hero.
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#157 - Searching for originality
Find your own voice and nurture it
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#152 - Getting clarity when pursuing multiple, contradictory goals
Make your trade-offs explicit with the "even more" strategy
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#144 - How did they achieve so much?
And why did they?
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#136 - Akbar, don’t worry about Birbal
How to get over the loss of your domain-specific expert in your org or team with something better
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#135 - Second-Order Thinking: The Seen and Oh, the Unseen
Part 3 of 3 in series on Visualization Techniques in Decision-Making
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