The rise of the knowledge worker is probably linked to the rise of meditation and mindfulness. When you are paid for your thinking, it pays to have your thinking be the best it can possibly be.
Can we take ideas from finance and apply them to the rest of our lives? I've been acting as it is. The truth isn't that simple.
What if we treated time management as a bet allocation problem? Say that we have a finite number of hours, which we might spend on a variety of career activities. How do we figure out what to spend our time on, instead of merely thinking about time management as how to tackle our todo lists?
Career moats are inspired by Warren Buffett's conception of a business's 'economic moat'. Here we take a look at a particular type of economic moat, to see what we can take from it when applied to an individual career.
"There is no such thing as a stupid question" is a laudable aphorism. In practice, it's often also wrong.
If our brains are built to generate and process narrative, then how can we use this insight to grapple with company politics?
