Overthinking Everything

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There is a persistent idea that people work 40 hours a week. They don't, and if you try to do this it will break you. Here are some more reasonable…
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Many things that seem hard you actually just lack an easy insight into, and it's worth spending some time investigating what those insights might be.
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Hi everyone, After overthinking overthinking last week I thought this week I’d talk about something that seems like (but isn’t) its opposite…
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Would you like to know about how feelings work? Because this is a long piece about how feelings work and how to recognise yours.
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Hi everyone, I’d like to start by telling you two interesting problems I’ve come across recently. Lies, Sex, and Academia Back in 1928, Margaret Meade…
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I would like not to become a productivity guru, so here is a newsletter entry about why we need to reject the very idea of productivity.
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What sorts of problems create innovations? Bell Labs seems like a pretty central example, and I argue that a lot of why they were as successful as they…
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Being part of society requires certain skills. Unfortunately, while we are happy to require these skills of people, we often completely fail to teach…
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Many decisions we have to make on a day to day basis are much easier than we treat them as. This is a partial guide to how you can recognise that and…
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Sometimes you just start writing a newsletter about a neat little metaphor and end up screaming onto the page. Sorry.
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Mondays, am I right? This is a letter about why you should complain about your problems to your coworkers.
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You can't just think of people as rational actors responding to incentives, but you also you can't ignore incentives. The solution is to think in terms…
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