I’m having a little celebration moment right now for my information detective skill. Allow me to share it with you. Earlier this week I saw a story of one of my IG acquaintances. it was a picture of a page shown on Kindle (see the passage at the end of this post). it looked interesting…
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I needed to collect all the lessons and tactics from 122 YouTube videos on business storytelling. And I need them fast. Why though? Am I learning storytelling? Well, yes and no. Let me explain. Origin story I’m convinced that storytelling is the closest technology that we have for idea transfer. Growing up socially awkward, I…
From Every Great Story Has 3 Central Questions – Jeffrey Alan Schechter: A central question is the main query that defines the plot of a story. It’s a question that, once answered, marks the end of the story. A central question consists of professional, personal, and private aspects. The professional component deals with external goals…
“It just feels like 90% of my life is spent in preparation mode. How much of that was necessary, will they pay off, and when can I finally catch a break, I don’t know” “Ah well, good luck with the interviews. I think you’re perfect for the job.” “Thanks” “Overcomplicating, overpreparing, always researching. Yep, sounds…
Sadar nggak teman-teman bahwa kita senantiasa berdansa dengan keterbatasan? Hampir semua yang kita lakukan sehari-hari itu sebenarnya adalah salah satu dari antara dua hal ini: Berusaha berdamai dengan keterbatasan kita. Berusaha mendobrak dan menggeser rentang keterbatasan kita. Menikmati makanan dan minuman enak, tapi kapasitas perut kita terbatas, kecepatan metabolisme kita terbatas, dan kapasitas keuangan kita…
Lately I’ve been revisiting this idea that reason is not the best path to breakthroughs. The core argument is that: we arrive at breakthroughs through intuition and imagination, and then we find our way to a proof or an artifact of that innovation through logic and reasoning. Aha-moments are intuited rather than arrived at procedurally.…
Kenneth Stanley (KS): … there’s this duality…. in the way i think about science and engineering. … the two sides of a coin where scientists use engineering to control in order to gain new knowledge. Whereas engineers take the knowledge that we have and use it to gain control by building a better whatever ……
Someone once shared a trick with me: if you’re not a great cook but want to sell food, your best bet is to make it spicy. Spiciness is often used as a trick to cover up culinary shortcomings. Let’s call this spicy sleight. Before we move on, it’s worth pointing out that this phenomenon is…
Hi friends, welcome back. In the first two posts of this series, we have discussed pain, pleasure, then danger, and discomfort. Now let’s switch gear and talk about something more concrete: technology. My aim is that after this you will start seeing all the different addictech & anestechia around us, and find yourself more consciously…
Last week I stumbled upon this post on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/C9QKQ9CqtRl/ For accessibility purpose, here’s the text in the image: soracities: – “the ‘humans are inherently selfish’ fanclub can genuinely and in all honesty go to hell. i once came back from a school yard where the kids had heaped piles of leaves and cut wildflowers…