How to Ask Questions (So Your Boss Doesn't Hate You)
"There is no such thing as a stupid question" is a laudable aphorism. It is also stupid and wrong.
"There is no such thing as a stupid question" is a laudable aphorism. It is also stupid and wrong.
In which we examine a logical extension of the idea that humans are built to learn from stories. If we're so attuned to stories, can we use this to acquire better career skills, and at a faster pace?
If our brains are built to generate and process narrative, then how can we use this insight to grapple with company politics?
Peak is a 2016 book from K. Anders Ericsson, the leading authority on deliberate practice. It covers 30 years of research into the field, but ultimately fails as a practical guide to putting it to practice.
Ken Kocienda's book is about how Apple builds software in the time of Steve Jobs. Highly recommended, especially if you're a software engineer.
Greg Wilson's Teaching Tech Together is ostensibly about teaching computer programming, but contains a wonderfully written section on how humans learn.
Charles Duhigg's 2012 book on habit introduces a bunch of valuable ideas from the academic literature of habit creation, but is ultimately not very useful to the practitioner.
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Perceptual exposure is a learning technique that uses the brain's ability to pattern match against deep perceptual cues. This post is a follow-up to my attempt last year to put perceptual exposure to practice.
I tried reading a book a week last year. Here's what I learnt, what I found surprising, and what I'm taking forwards.
The final part of a framework for putting mental models to practice. Here we attempt to answer a deceptively simple question: when someone gives you advice, how do you evaluate that advice before putting it into practice?