Back again, after a short break.
A throwaway line in The Ezra Klein Show between Ezra and Malcolm Gladwell led to the break. They were discussing the need to allow time for reflection. To process and digest what you are learning and taking in. Malcolm Gladwell does this while out running. Continue reading “Handpicked: Gender Barriers and Pay Gap, Thinking Hats, and Communist Index Funds”
It has been a while since my last handpicked post as life got really busy for week or two.
Here is a collection of articles, podcasts, and even videos I have consumed over the last two weeks.
“You could be the best observer in the world but if you can’t communicate what it is that you see, it doesn’t do you any good.”
It feels like I am back at school. I have drawn a few set diagrams (Venn diagrams) recently. So perhaps not surprising the following images came to me while listening to the new podcast from NPR called Code Switch.
These diagrams are so simple and powerful. As soon as I see them I start asking questions about why the lines were drawn where they were. The boundaries fascinate me.
But why this particular diagram? Why did this one pop into my head? Continue reading “What Are You Leaving Out?”
What do you do when you feel offended by a comment or resist a point of view?
Have you ever paid attention to that feeling and asked why?
In her interview with Tim Ferriss on his podcast, Tim asks Whitney Cummings what question she would ask of his audience.
Her first response is ‘Watch Comedy. It’s good for you.” (2:29:26)
Tim then says he will dig on that for a second. He asks what some new to comedy should pay attention to or asks themselves if they want to see another layer.
Whitney says “Look at what Offends you.” (2:30:00)
She continues “If something offends you; Watch Richard Pryor, watch Daniel Tosh, watch the most incendiary comedians, Bill Burr, maybe Louis CK …”.
“If something offends you, look inward. That’s a sign that there is something there. What offends someone says a lot about them.”
That question has stuck with me ever since.
Pay attention to that feeling of offence. That feeling is telling you something about yourself. About your own views and values.
Similarly, someone else’s offence, or resistance, tells you something about them and what they value.
Continue reading “Can You Learn from Your Own and Others Resistance?”
“We rely on simple, efficient thought processes to get the job done—not so much out of laziness (though there is some of that, too), but out of necessity. There is just too much going on, too much to notice, understand, and act on, for us to give every individual and every occurrence our undivided, unbiased attention. So not only are you innately hard to understand, but the people observing you are hoarding their attention.”
From No One Understands You and What to Do About It by Heidi Halvorson
I couldn’t resist this quote when I read it earlier this week. On Tuesday, the 15th, I gave a presentation to a Business Analysts Meetup Group in Brisbane on the core concept of the Jobs to be Done framework, the Job.
The words “get the job done” stood out straight away.
I was primed to see them.
Specifically, the link between getting the job done and being a cognitive miser caught my attention.
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