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On Lying To Yourself

Your two biggest barriers to achieving your goals: lying to yourself and blind-spots. The cure? Being 'radically open-minded'.

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The Two Ways You Can Increase Your Rationality

In a nutshell: update your mental models and stay open-minded. The latter being less obvious than the former.

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How To Optimise for Success, A Theory

Successful practitioners use 'optimise for usefulness' over 'optimise for truth'. Unintended side effect: this means it's ok to believe in religion, so long as it doesn't harm you.

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Ray Dalio's 5 Step Process (To Getting What You Want Out Of Life)

Ray Dalio's has a 5 step process that reads slightly self-helpy, but like the rest of Principles, was written for the rational man in mind.

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Applying Derek Siver’s Over-Compensate to Compensate to Software Development

Derek Sivers has this wonderful idea called “Over-Compensate to Compensate”. I try applying it software development.

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Ray Dalio's Hyperrealism

A non-comprehensive summary of the first section of Ray Dalio's Life Principles, which concerns itself with ‘dealing with reality’.

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Principles

A how-to manual for being effective by Ray Dalio, founder of the most successful hedge fund in the world.

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Building Career Moats: A Confession

What authority does this author have for writing about career moats? An honest answer, and an accounting of weaknesses.

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Cryptocurrency: fad or disruptive finance industry change?

In which we apply Andy Grove's Strategic Inflection Point analysis to cryptocurrency.

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The New Geography of Jobs

Some jobs are getting pushed out of cities. Others aren't. What this means for careers.