Ideas

A practical exploration of Charlie Munger's ‘two-track analysis’ of human behaviour, applied to three scenarios you'll face at work.

How does compensation affect the decision to quit a job? An excerpt from my upcoming book Keep Your People: The Startup Manager's Guide to Employee Retention.

A reading technique that's ridiculously simple, and surprisingly effective when used in service of reading for career goals.

Three nuanced takes by three believable people, all of whom argue that ‘follow your passion’ isn't as rubbish as Cal Newport suggests.

Understanding the underlying business models that underpin your industry often leads to better career moves. Here's what this looks like in practice.

Piers Steel's Procrastination Equation is a reasonably effective method of tackling procrastination. Here's a summary of the equation.

From Gary Klein's book The Power of Intuition comes a useful overview of dealing with uncertainty.

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?