Here are three simple practices to get you started on the path to better decisions. I’ve distilled them from a wonderful interview of neuroscientist and author Lisa Barrett on The Knowledge Project podcast. Before I lay out the behaviors, here’s a quick reframing. How we see things: Good decision-making is…

If you’re young and debating which career to pursue, remember that your choice will also decide how fast you’ll learn, how well you’ll learn, and your attitude toward failure and success for the next several decades. Even if you’ve made this consequential decision of your life, you may find something…

👉Does Adam Grant only share motivational bytes or is it that his motivational bytes are the ones most re-shared by his audience, giving the appearance that he’s just sitting there typing out tweets he simply knows will get retweeted and shared thousands of times over? 👉Do NPS scores reflect the…

My mum-in-law is a fantastic cook but she doesn’t understand 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲. Her dishes are yummy but presented like a peasant’s. To bees, a plant that can produce bright petals and fragrant scent has enough nectar. To a peahen, a peacock that can bear the extravagance of a dazzling…

Why is it that come December you’re likely to tell yourself ‘Okay, come the new year, I’ll put myself on a diet and exercise routine’. But at age 29, you’re likely to use dating sites and apps with a fervor that is explained by ‘I need to find someone before…

Have a strong opinion about what problems you’re trying to solve, but be loose about how you’re going to solve them. This is something I’ve learned over the past year. The first version of your non-obvious idea on how to solve a problem is usually off the mark. So you…

Matching talent with interests is something that businesses pay attention to. But it’s a hard thing to get right because people don’t always know who they are–a builder (one who sets up a business out of an idea) or a farmer (one who scales a business already set up). Here’s…

Ooch, a soup of scoot and inch, is an approach to incremental testing that I learned about in the book Decisive. You design small bets, acquire high-quality information, and test hypotheses on how things should be done. The process helps you work out what it takes without letting you go…

If you find yourself making rash decisions or agonizing over decisions, this is for you. Moments of raw emotion may make you feel obligated that you need to decide that very instant 🤷‍♂️ And such moments come in all manner–from letting a bare wall tell you you need a bigger…