Why Are We Yelling: The Art of Productive Disagreement

https://twitter.com/buster/status/1182390032671203328 Buster Benson’s book “Why Are We Yelling“ was one of my favorite books last year. I personally believe that everyone in this digital era of information torrent and opinion floodgate could benefit from learning and practicing the skill of arguing productively. It’s a light read filled with real stories and 100 of Buster’s illustrations.…

How I Read and Consume Audio/Video Content

I recently posted a list of book recommendations for Data Engineering and Data Analysis on my Facebook account. One friend made a comment that the books are quite expensive when converted into local currencies. Yes these technical books averages at USD 30 which could get you 10-15 decent meals in Jakarta, the capital city. and…

Three Types of Listening According to Jennifer Garvey Berger

In her interview in The Knowledge Project Ep. #84, Jennifer Garvey Berger shared the idea that there are 3 types of listening: Listening to fix Listening to win Listening to learn Win: I think of this as the most surface-level listening. Dismissive. You listen in order to collect just enough data that you can use…

8 Simple steps to manage your attention, motivation, and productivity when working remotely

You don’t need to learn any other thing about productivity. I promise. Identify your Most Important Task(s) for that day. Have maximum of 2, that require at most 6 hours of deep work. Do those first. Two reasons: 1) Everything else will seem so easy after that and 2) Even if you failed to do…

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