15 Questions You Need to Ask Yourselves
What do you want from your life? What your passion is? What your strengths are? What your weaknesses are? What are your core values? What makes you happy? What gets…
How to Write Effective Emails
Start the subject line with keywords: Project/task name - Action - Subject e.g. Retail Comms - Input request - Reporting article final draft review request Email body summary - summarize…
Presentations
Basics Effective presentation stems from clear thinking. Plan ahead - consider the audience, prepare your content and be comfortable delivering the material Identify the potential needs, objectives, and goals of…
How to be Happy
Dr. Laurie Santos We are not built to be happy. We are built for survival and reproduction. Miswanting - the act of trying to go for certain things that we…
Meditation
Andrew Huberman on meditation Brain can’t feel. When you focus on your brain thoughts will come in waves. Feeling, emotions and memories when we focus on the prefrontal cortex Being…
Three Goals for Any Interaction
Marsha Linehan dialectical behavior therapy In her module, she talks about there are really three goals that we can have when we enter into any human interaction. Ideally, we achieve…
Eight Rules of the School of Life
By Alain de Botton Accept imperfection — We are all from close up scared, unsure, full of regret, longing, and error. No one is normal. The only people we can think…
Neuroscience of Creativity
By Beau Lotto Every behavior that we do is to reduce uncertainty e.g. on a boat when eyes see we are still, inner ear see we are moving, brain gets…
Mastering the art of Pertinent Negatives (PN)
Seeing the unseen and describing the unseen It’s saying what isn’t these in addition to what is there to actually give a more accurate picture of what you looking at.…
Team Topology
Team topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais Goal: Achieve flow. Common Software/Product development issues Teams struggle with the cost of switching contexts. Teams lack the bandwidth to pursue mastery…