Getting better often feels like getting worse. Having a withdrawal from addiction. Cutting toxin person you liked from your life. Exercising when you are not fit. Changing bad processes at the company. So if things are getting worse, think about… Read More »Getting Better
This never occurred to me as a reason but makes so much sense “The accuracy of the search results was reduced, which meant that users needed to do two or three queries to the get the results they would have… Read More »Why Most Sites Are Bad
Agreeing is easy. Disagreeing is hard. Despite this, people agreeing are usually considered better than people disagreeing. Disagreeing creates discomfort and people like to avoid this. As a leader, you cannot fear the discomfort. Discomfort moves us forward. Creating a… Read More »Agreeing
The paradox of why boredom is on the rise
Being honest is hard and it is easy. It is hard because sometimes being honest can hurt somebody else or hurt you. It is easy because if you are honest, you have nothing to hide and nothing to be afraid… Read More »Being Honest
This could explain why we have such a hard time with some client or colleagues “it should be obvious that the purpose of writing is to convey information, and in a rapidly complexifying world the amount of written information normal… Read More »Most people are illiterate
“We live in the era of the symbolic executive, when “being good at stuff” matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff, where “what’s useful” is dictated not by outputs or metrics that one can measure but rather the… Read More »We Are Ruled by Idiots
Same same, but different, but still same
Do experts have it easy? Or is there something else? “Novices often spend energy fixing things that are orthogonal to the actual problem they want to solve, whereas experts are able to better direct their energy towards the problems they… Read More »What Is An Expertise?
Sometimes we care too much. You see something is bad, not working as it should be, could be improved. And you want it to be better. But if the other side or all sides involved do not care, the effort… Read More »Not Caring