The evil twins of Diet And Exercise (Keystone Habits). There are Mental Health components as well. (more)

Erik Torenberg: The Death of The Middle. The emergence of department stores opened up a vast array of choices for the everyday consumer. (more)

Erik Torenberg: How the Internet Ate Media. Many people long for a world pre-Twitter, where we all had a shared sense of reality, but that world isn’t coming back. We’ll discuss why in this piece. (more)

Erik Torenberg: Markets are Eating the World. Markets Eating The World 1.0 was about online marketplaces transforming travel, transportation, commerce, and much more. (more)

Erik Torenberg: A Primer on Prediction Markets. Last week we discussed how often elites when making predictions have neither skin-in-the-game nor accountability. ()2021-06-13-TorenbergTheTautologyOfTheElites) This week we’ll talk about a technology aiming to introduce both. (more)

Erik Torenberg: The Tautology of the Elites. A few weeks ago we spoke about how institutions are failing. (2021-04-26-TorenbergWhyAreInstitutionsFailingUs) This week, we’ll talk about how those institutions — and the elites that run them — stay in power despite their repeated blunders (more)

Erik Torenberg: Build Personal Moats: a competitive advantage specific to you that's not only durable, but compounding over time. (more)

Erik Torenberg: Why Are Institutions Failing Us? The macro trend is an overall collapse of faith in institutions. (more)

Erik Torenberg: Whoever Generates the Demand Captures the Value. Last week we talked about the death of the middle -- this week we’ll talk about the death of middlemen. (middleman) 2021-05-02-TorenbergTheDeathOfTheMiddle (more)

Erik Torenberg on Reputation Markets (Reputation Management) Like any market, reputation markets have their own economies, complete with incentives to earn & spend various forms of capital. (more)

Aaron Dignan on How to choose a model of Self Organization that works for you... (cf 2013-12-23-3NewOrganizationModels) (more)

Venkatesh Rao on Unicorns, BandWagons and Networks: For a tiny minority (of people), the question is whether to become part of the unicorn itself. For the vast majority though, especially outside of Silicon Valley, the question is whether to jump on the bandwagon being dragged behind it. (more)

see asynch

employees not in the office - see Distributed Team, etc

Edgar Henry Schein (born March 5, 1928), a former professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has made a notable mark on the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture... Schein's model of organizational culture originated in the 1980s. Schein (2004) identifies three distinct levels in organizational cultures: artifacts and behaviours; espoused values; assumptions... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Schein

Business strategy, product strategy, military strategy, Grand Strategy, etc

Gordon Brander: The state of the web. What’s next for the web? I’ve spent a good chunk of my career trying to answer this question in practice, making the web do things it maybe shouldn’t… stuff like mobile operating systems, and VR. Follow-up to (2021-09-10) Brander Why Did The Web Take Over Desktop And Not Mobile. (more)

Limiting beliefs are false beliefs that prevent us from pursuing our goals and desires. Limiting beliefs can keep you from doing important things, like applying for your dream job or finding the relationship you want (or leaving the one you don’t want). They can also keep you from doing unimportant things, like skydiving in your underwear or trying out that weird Scotchberry ice cream flavor that looks like baby vomit in a cone.

Planning by envisioning a destination and then designing the process to get there. (more)

Visakan Veerasamy ebook. HIGH VOLTAGE LIVING is somewhere at the intersection of Introspect and Optics. It's about "narrative throughput". It involves understanding talismans (any meaningful object) and aesthetics. It's about learning to charge & discharge narrative batteries. Spark Joy turned to 11. (more)