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🤯Unknown Unknowns #129 - Thinking About Sports
This was the headline of ESPN a few days ago. The Yankees best pitcher, Gerrit Cole, had an MRI recently that was inconclusive but the prognosis was…
Mar 25
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Customer-Centric Government
Tom Critchlow recently wrote an essay titled How do You Cultivate Customer-Centric Executives? He starts off with a quote: “Many companies describe…
Mar 25
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Schrödingpreneur
Mark Cuban calls people who want to be entrepreneurs but don’t market or ship, “wantapreneurs.” As someone who has had a hard time shipping, I’ve…
Mar 22
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What Makes Candy Candy?
As a high school fundraiser, we sold chocolate. Customers would order chocolates in various shapes, like Christmas trees or bows. We would melt down…
Mar 21
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Meyers-Brigg and Kaizen
I’ve heard that in the Thinker/Feeler dichotomy of Meyers-Brigg, feelers want feelings validated and acknowledged and have emotional support. In…
Mar 20
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Self-Reflection and Pharmacology
It seems to me that most drug use is related to problems and self-reflection, but in two contrasting ways. Either allowing yourself to escape from…
Mar 19
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Subjective Experiences
It’s impossible to convince someone that your taste is correct, and it’s even harder to convince them that their taste is wrong. We say that opinion is…
Mar 18
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Opportunity Cost
Opportunity cost is usually thought of as, “How much money am I giving up?” We’ve become conditioned to translate value into monetary terms. But what…
Mar 16
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Margin of Error and False Positives
A large margin of error is usually preferable. It means that you can mess up and still accomplish what you want to accomplish. But when you’re learning…
Mar 15
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Daylight Saving Time
I always thought Daylight Savings Time was dumb. It’s hubris to try to control the world. If you want to be awake when the sun is out, then you could…
Mar 14
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Pride
Marty Cooper, in the MartyrMade podcast, said that successful people in diasporas must swallow their pride for pragmatic reasons. As minorities in new…
Mar 13
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🤯Unknown Unknowns #128 - There's No Need to Explain Your Joy
The specter of loss always lingers. In the last couple of months, my family had a loss and my friend’s mother passed. I spent the last two weeks in Utah…
Mar 13
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