Reading Time: < 1 min In the world of technology, there are a ton of acronyms to describe various things. For example, I’m writing this post using a CMS (Content Management System), the text looks nice thanks to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and I often write about things such as SEO (Search Engine Optimization). I’m a big listener of the […]
Learning
Who shares your transactive memory?
Reading Time: 2 min The idea of “transactive memory” is fascinating to me. In short, it’s the idea that you allow others to remember parts of your life (and vice-versa) so that you don’t have to hold it all in. For example, my wife is helping my daughter get ready to head off to the University of Georgia this […]
Shifting ideas versus flip-flopping
Reading Time: < 1 min I’ve said for nearly a decade that changing your mind on a topic can be a great thing. This can be little things like the type of phone you prefer, or bigger things like the governmental policies that you support. Locking yourself in and refusing to be open to new ideas is a dangerous place […]
Cynic or Skeptic?
Reading Time: < 1 min I talk a lot on here about asking questions and looking beyond the obvious, but there is a fine line between being in inquisitive skeptic and simply being a cynic. Darren Hardy recently put out a video about this, and he defined the words this way: A cynic distrusts most of the information they hear. […]
Whenever there is judgment, there is noise
Reading Time: 2 min I shared a bit from Daniel Kahneman last year when I talked about complex language vs credible intelligence. I was recently listening to Daniel on the Hidden Brain podcast with Shankar Vedantam when Daniel raised another great observation. His most recent book is titled “Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment“, and digs into how “noise” […]
The truth is worth more than your agenda
Reading Time: 2 min The past year has opened my eyes to a lot of things. What I’m noticing more and more, particularly on social media, is people that share stories that fit their agenda with literally no concern about the facts. It gets worse when the facts become clear, yet they double down. I see it happen more […]
You’re not bad at remembering – you just don’t care
Reading Time: < 1 min There are some people that have photographic memory or otherwise remarkable abilities to remember things. Beyond those outliers, the rest of us are about the same — we remember the things that we put work into. Rick Kitagawa recently shared this idea on his blog, where he said: I used to subscribe to the notion […]
The matrix of my posts
Reading Time: 2 min As I’m writing more and more posts on here, I’m noticing that they vary in two major ways in my head: The quality of the post, as determined by length and effort that I put in. Some posts I’m quite proud of, while others are merely good enough. The confidence I have in the content […]
Europeans drew incomplete maps
Reading Time: 2 min I recently posted about how it’s generally a bad idea to pretend you know everything about any given subject, because you probably don’t. I came across an excellent example of this while reading the book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Throughout history, most civilizations drew a complete world map. While they only knew of […]
Be the idiot
Reading Time: < 1 min Simon Sinek recently had a great take on how asking more questions, and “being the idiot in the room”, can have great value for everyone. In the end, there are two big benefits: As your teacher always told you in grade school, if you have a question about something that you don’t understand, others in […]