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This is an interesting short piece from Seth about placebos: Ignoring the placebo effect won’t make it go away. Embracing it will help you do much better work, work that quite possibly is based on those skills and practices you’ve worked so hard to be good at. If
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"So, what do we do?" "We keep her going as long as she'll eat. And when she stops eating, we'll know it's time." There's no easy way to have a conversation about cancer, even when it's
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One of the advantages of being early in your career is that you're on the outside of things. People talk to you and tell you the truth because you don't have any power. When you have power, people would tell you what they think you want
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The last few days have been strange. I've never caught a sore throat in the middle of summer before, so yesterday afternoon when I noticed my throat was scratchy, I figured I hadn't been drinking enough water. Working at home, I got up from my desk
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Pushing someone to do better requires wagering some or all of your relationship capital with them. If you're wrong, you could lose your whole stake. If you're right, you could double your bet. But this requires that you built up the relationship capital before deciding to
Jocko on Episode 135 of the podcast talks about not trying to hog credit and: So, the reason [extreme ownership] works, is because I'm not out there doing it for me. That's the big difference. So if you're out there, thinking "Ah, cool,
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Troy Hunt is the creator of about Have I Been Pwned, his website that can tell you when your email or password is included in a data breach when a company gets hacked. It has become the biggest player in the market. Now, it's grown so large that
Goodhart's law is an adage named after economist Charles Goodhart, which has been phrased by Marilyn Strathern as "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." If you know the rubric you will be graded on, in a sufficiently competitive landscape,
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Inkdrop is a service that's a bit like Evernote for programmers. All the notes are in markdown instead of a WYSIWYG editor and it magically syncs them all to their cloud. But what really caught my eye was this section on the pricing page: Particularly this part: If
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Seneca, Letter 22: Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
I graduated from NC State University in 2011, so I still see news about it come across my feed, like this item talking about leveling and rebuilding the main gym on campus, right across the street from the student center that was also just leveled and rebuilt. What surprised me
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Satisfaction and happiness comes from moving in the right direction, not being in the right place. No matter where you are, if you try to linger there, you will eventually stop being happy. You have to keep moving in the right direction to keep being happy and satisfied. Likewise, no