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Complicated vs complex
I am still working my way through this Arthur C Brooks podcast. I mostly want to save this here so I can find it later; it’s so good: My dad believed not that what we know is what we should pay attention to, but to marvel at what we can do and still not know…
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Communicating with awareness (aka being present and awake with each other)
I’ve written before about the challenges of listening well and how important it is to practice, but that previous post didn’t include any guidance as to how. I also shared five questions for exploring another’s perspective, but that supposed you are really hearing someone in the first place. So I was happy to come across…
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On the value (and difficulty) of listening
Listening well is super hard. At first, it appears that listening requires much less work, and is less important, than other aspects of communication like formulating a bullet-proof counterpoint, a witty come-back, or some smart advice. You don’t really need to do much to listen right? It doesn’t seem like enough, and yet, much of…
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How to make good decisions
You are constantly making decisions in your life and your work. How do you ensure you are making the best decisions you can? The short answer is that you have to practice it. The longer answer is that decision-making is a skill and it is learned like every other skill. There are hundreds (thousands?) of…
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Losing vs gaining
When you are relying on others to get something done, and it isn’t getting done, or it isn’t what you wanted, it’s easy to feel like you are losing something. Nobody wants to be a loser. How can you turn your loss into a gain?
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A debug mindset
I came across this image (from a Julia Evans tweet) last night and I was thinking about it a lot today. Although it’s about software debugging it’s applicable to hard problems of any kind.
Writing and drawings by Nick.
