Friday, December 27, 2019
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Complex Systems
A TEDx talk on the role complex systems play in shaping our reality and what we can do to better understand them
Monday, November 18, 2019
12 Rules for Life
1. Stand up straight with your shoulders back 4:30 2. Treat yourself like you are someone you care about 16:23 3. Make friends with people who want the best for you 22:53 4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today 25:45 5. Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them 37:23 6.Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world 48:51 7. Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient) 58:46 8 Tell the truth, or at least don't lie 9. Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't 1:05:00 10. Be precise in your speech 11. Do not bother children when they are skateboarding 1:11:45 12. Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street 1:17:06
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Saturday, October 5, 2019
The Future of Education - Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval on how to become a better self-directed Learner: from 33:39 - 38:34
Sunday, September 22, 2019
How Do We Learn Anything...Fast?
Josh Kaufman argues in his talk that it takes 20 hours for you to learn something really well, if you follow these 5 steps:
1. Decide exactly what you want: what is it you are able to do? What does it look like when you are done? What does it look like when you say to yourself that I did this thing I always wanted to do? The more clearly and exactly you are able to define what is it you want to do, the more clearly and completely you are able to define exactly what you want to do, the easier it would be for you to find ways to accomplish that desired result as quickly and efficiently as possible. Defining a target performance level. How well you are able to perform and what does that performance actually look like.
2. Deconstructing skill - all skills are a bundle of skills. You break the global skill into small parts and you practice the most important sub skills - the things you are going to use most, first.
3. Researching - research just enough to identify the sub skills you want to learn. Also understanding and being able to self correct, as you practicing. Find books, courses, people who can help you with the deconstruction. Skim through multiple resources and identify ideas that come up over and over again. Those are the things you should know and you can self correct when you practice.
4. Removing barriers to practice - making it easy to sit down and actually do the things you want to be good at. Making sure you are not distracted by outside forces. Remove distractions and make sure the time is undivided and focused as possible. Anything make it easy for you to do, do that.
5. Pre commit to at least 20 hours deliberate practice.
20 hours ... is a focused, strategic effort invested in something you care about, and something that's going to be rewarding to yourself and to your life.
Repetition is important.
Friday, September 20, 2019
What's in the Frige? - The Power of Systems
This is a podcast by Seth Godin. It touched multiple topics: technology advancement and disruption, future of smart homes, marketing, customer service, connected world and power of systems.
<<< Click Here to Listen >>>
Thursday, September 5, 2019
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Friday, August 30, 2019
How to Work Together
Based on Dr. John Gottman's marriage research, he could predict with 85% accuracy whether a couple will be divorced in four years, only after watching them fight for 15 min. If he watches them for an hour and have them also share their hopes and dreams, his prediction rating goes up to 94%. With the same video,
It turned out that we all fight about the same things: money, kids, sex, time, jealousy, the in-laws and what we are going to do with free time. This is true for happily married couple as well as couples that eventually divorce. What's interesting is that all these map out to what we fight about in a company:
Money --> Fundraising / Runway
Kids --> Customers / Employees
Sex --> Performance
Time --> Roadmap
Jealousy --> Competition
In-Laws --> Partnerships
Kowinng that everyone fights, we can make a plan to figure out how to deal with the situation that will determine whether we will work together on the thing that we're so passionate about down the road.
Dr. John Gottman also figured out that there are four major things we want to avoid when we are fighting: criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling.
Listen to Kevin Hale's talk where he explains how entrepreneurs can leverage Dr. John Gottman's research to work better together.
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Steve Jobs - Life Philosophy
"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, i.e., everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use, and the minute you understand that you can poke life, if you push in, something will pop out the other side. You can change, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing - to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there, you just gonna live in it versus embrace it, change it, improve it, and make your mark upon it. ... once your learn that, you'll never be the same again."
Monday, August 19, 2019
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Monday, August 5, 2019
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Why You Shouldn't do What You're Told
Seth Godin talks about:
What it means to start small and start now
how do you know when to ship a project
how do you know how to market a product
starting a business “was never about how do I make money doing something. It was how do I find enough resources to do a project that I'm interested in. How do I be able to put on a show that I care about and if there's a business component to it that's fine, but for me the work has always been to do a project and sometimes those projects can be amplified by working for someone but even if you are working for someone you don't have to act as if it's a job. A job is where you try to please someone who tells you what to do and that person usually wants you to do what you did yesterday but a little faster and a little cheaper whereas impresarios and people who make projects are playing by a completely different set of rules.”
"...now that these platforms exist now that individuals like you and I can do the work we care about without a job and without a boss we shouldn't be teaching every single kid how to be normal we
should be teaching kids two things how to solve interesting problems and how to we're going to see our culture accelerate."
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Saturday, March 2, 2019
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Friday, February 22, 2019
Monday, February 18, 2019
Friday, January 25, 2019
Yuval Harari: "Techno-Religions and Silicon Prophets"
Yuval Harari: "Techno-Religions and Silicon Prophets" | Talks at Google
Techno-Religions and Silicon Prophets: Will the 21st century be shaped by hi-tech gurus or by religious zealots – or are they the same thing?
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Monday, January 14, 2019
Sunday, January 13, 2019
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)