Stop and think about how you are spending your time. Time is constantly moving, whether we stop to recognize it or not. How will you spend it? These five powerful questions will help you reconfigure your time today.
Published: 10/5/2022Length: ~11m↓ Download this Episode
A short term mindset will focus on different things than a long term mindset. Neither is right or wrong, but what are you optimizing for? Once you answer this question, you can start to work towards finding a solution that balances both.
Published: 10/4/2022Length: ~8m↓ Download this Episode
Your best tool is your next question.
Published: 9/28/2022Length: ~12m↓ Download this Episode
Diffuse thinking produces options and draws connections. Focused thinking narrows things down to a specific path. Use them both, and watch for when they collide.
Published: 9/26/2022Length: ~7m↓ Download this Episode
Doing nothing seems like it would be easy... But it seems that action is often easier than doing nothing. Sometimes, perhaps often, action is the right choice. However, if there is no reason to believe one action over another would be better, or action over inaction for that matter - why are we taking action at all? If we think about our efforts as spending time and energy, we can more adequately understand that inaction may be a valuable skill, rather than a risk.
Published: 9/21/2022Length: ~6m↓ Download this Episode
You are not the sum of your decisions. Making better decisions often relies on having a long list of mistakes to learn from.
Published: 9/19/2022Length: ~9m↓ Download this Episode
How does the smartest person in the world solve the most complex problems that most mathemeticians can't even understand? The same way you write code and build features at your job. The principles always apply.
Published: 9/15/2022Length: ~9m↓ Download this Episode
Choose one thing. Only one important thing. Do that over and over. That's your way out of overwhelm.
Published: 9/12/2022Length: ~10m↓ Download this Episode
What people ask for is not the same as why they ask for it. What people want isn't as simple as what they say they want. Understanding the *why* is critical - the interest is just as important as the position.
Published: 9/9/2022Length: ~8m↓ Download this Episode
People often erroneously plan for specific futures. This leads down a pathway to failure most times. This is because the future is rarely what we expect it to be. We can think in terms of multiple possible futures, and prepare for most of them. This leads us towards flexibility and adaptabiity.
Published: 9/5/2022Length: ~7m↓ Download this Episode
Making good decisions is about tuning context. If you can't determine the context that matters, the decision itself is impossible to measure against. All decisions can be framed within a context with other decisions; choosing those decisions in concert is often the best strategy.
Published: 8/31/2022Length: ~10m↓ Download this Episode
Feedback loops shape everything around us. We make a change or adjustment, watch for what happens, and repeat. This happens with people in the most unexpected ways. Tuning in to this adjustment loop can help us use it as a tool, rather than reacting to it.
Published: 8/31/2022Length: ~9m↓ Download this Episode
Every decision is a tradeoff. If you are looking for the "right" decision, you can reframe this to the "optimal decision based on my desired outcome." This could have the effect of aligning your biases to work in your favor.
Published: 8/29/2022Length: ~6m↓ Download this Episode
Is your performance review judging the luck or random events of a person's career? What about the times they made the right decision in a bad situation? The outcome may not be desirable every time, even with good decision-making.
Published: 8/27/2022Length: ~12m↓ Download this Episode
Feedback loops shape everything around us. We make a change or adjustment, watch for what happens, and repeat. This happens with people in the most unexpected ways. Tuning in to this adjustment loop can help us use it as a tool, rather than reacting to it.
Published: 8/22/2022Length: ~9m↓ Download this Episode
Almost every complex problem can be broken down and solved. Thinking from the other side - learning general solutions and how to compose those will give you the ability to build against the broken down complex problem.
Published: 8/19/2022Length: ~6m↓ Download this Episode
Today, we'll dismantle a few common excuses often provided for not setting goals. We also briefly discuss the SMART goal-setting framework.
Published: 8/15/2022Length: ~18m↓ Download this Episode
Your time is full of intent, but if you reflect back - how often do you do what you intend? Our actions are usually trying to reach some outcome, but are haphazard and habit-driven. What if we made that outcome explicit, and made our calendars reflect specific processes instead of vague outcomes?
Published: 8/12/2022Length: ~11m↓ Download this Episode