First, as a rule, if you tell people “look how organized I am,” the universe will then throw a proverbial wrench into your gearbox and howl with a laughter only the cruelest of taskmasters can howl. Last night, after a marathon of calls and busyness, I was making dinner and remembering I still didn’t write … Continue reading How To Use Status To Create (Or Destroy!) Value
Tag: psychology
Dostoyevsky On The Habits We Accumulate
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (h/t James Clear) said, “It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a person’s life is made up of nothing but the habits they accumulated during the first half.” This is only partly true. I know for me, and I’m sure for many of you reading this note, you figured out … Continue reading Dostoyevsky On The Habits We Accumulate
Khe Hy: There’s No Playbook For Grief
Khe Hy shared a personal story about losing a friend in a tragic hit-and-run incident. As only he can do, he deconstructs the grief and how it hit him. It’s not an easy read, but it’s an important one. You or someone you love (and honestly, all of us) will deal with loss. It’ll be … Continue reading Khe Hy: There’s No Playbook For Grief
Don’t Mess With Texas
Texas had a littering problem. People were chucking stuff out of their windows while driving and it was making a mess. In 5 years they achieved a 75% decline in littering. Here’s what they did. They painted a clear picture of what was going on and what needed to be done. They pointed at shared … Continue reading Don’t Mess With Texas
Two Types Of Trust
David Burkus has a fascinating post up about the “Two Types of Trust on Teams.” Here’s the short version: Trust is what enables teams to work well together. More trust = better, less trust = worse. The two types of trust worth focusing on (and building/rebuilding) are Cognition-based trust and Affect-based trust. Cognition-based trust is … Continue reading Two Types Of Trust
Live As If You Have A Responsibility For What Other People Want
Ever read a book that sort of breaks your brain because it gives you a new model/way to see things? Where you know it somehow fits/overlaps with the current way you see things, but you can’t quite fit it into place? Like it’s a single flower in a field of flowers puzzle and now you’re … Continue reading Live As If You Have A Responsibility For What Other People Want
Podcast Of The Week: Ben Hunt With JP O’Shaughnessy
I may have to make a separate list of “oh, to have the privilege of being a fly on the wall for this conversation” podcast episodes. Ben Hunt is the market/political game-theorist extraordinaire. JP O’Shaugnnessy is one of the original quant investors. The talk is supposed to be centered on the metaverse, but they cover … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Ben Hunt With JP O’Shaughnessy
Cultivating Your Crisis + Flourishing Mindsets
When everything sucks, we get through when we have the right type of crisis mindset. There’s a scale, and some of us are better than others across a number of variables, but our crisis mindsets determine our ability to get out of the crisis itself (at least with our wits, and hopefully with some semblance … Continue reading Cultivating Your Crisis + Flourishing Mindsets
Podcast Of The Week: The Behavioral Finance Entertainment Complex
This Brian Portnoy take really resonated with me. He says we (the finance industry) have created a “Behavioral Finance entertainment complex that does very little to help real people make real decisions.” In a nutshell, people are predictably irrational (as Dan Ariely put it). We know a lot of ways these irrationalities manifest. In the … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: The Behavioral Finance Entertainment Complex
Not My Monkeys, Not My Circus
I’ve got some monkeys on my back. Not in some drug metaphor (I’m OK mom), but in some bad habits and patterns I’m trying to reprogram. From the outside in, those monkeys make up the circus that is my life. It’s not a bad circus. I’m mostly entertained, and despite the occasional moment of “why … Continue reading Not My Monkeys, Not My Circus