TED Talks
Critical thinking is a 21st-century essential — here’s how to help kids learn it
3 min · · If we want children to thrive in our complicated world, we need to teach them how to think, says educator Brian Oshiro. And we can do it with 4 simple questions. · Shared by 31, including Carlos Jonay Suárez Suárez, Nir Eyal, Jacob du Toit
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Why you should separate goals and compensation
2 min · · Or why you should abandon your bonus formula · Shared by 4, including Jacob du Toit
InfoQ
Agile Goal Setting with OKR - Objectives and Key Results
16+ min · · OKR (Objectives and Key Results) is a goal setting framework adopted by Silicon Valley companies that can complement Agile and Lean, creating an agile approach for setting goals and measuring value.
Used by Google, Twitter and LinkedIn, OKR can help evolve the Agile Community and the Agile Manifesto itself from a focus on outputs (delivering features) to a focus on outcomes (delivering results). · Shared by 16, including Jacob du Toit
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How we make decisions at Coinbase
8 min · · In this post, I’ll share a framework we’ve developed at Coinbase that helps us make decisions more effectively. Our core values include… · Shared by 210, including Alain, Stefan T, Thomas Power, Mark Kaigwa, Joona Tuunanen 🇫🇮, Helmi, Michael Duergner, Mathias Böhm, Walid Ark, masone, Patric Fornasier, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, L. Taylor Banks, ThomNagy, Marc Garriga, Yonatan Levy, Liv 😷, Jacob du Toit, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Gabriel Weinberg
Farnam Street
Creating a Decision Journal: Template And Example Included
7 min · · Read this article to learn how a decision journal (template included) can improve the way you make decisions by giving you a critical feedback loop. · Shared by 152, including Leslie, Teresa Torres, Jessel Sookha, Jacob du Toit
Data Science Central
Erlang Distribution: Definition, Examples
1 min · · What is the Erlang distribution? Examples and definition of the specific form of the Gamma distribution. Relationship to other distributions. · Shared by 1, including Jacob du Toit
jimcollins.com
Concepts
· Here in one place are the timeless concepts that emerged from more than 25 years of rigorous research into the question of what makes great companies tick. These concepts are used widely by leaders… · Shared by 4, including Jacob du Toit
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Latticework of Mental Models: The Rashomon Effect
5 min · · The parable of six blind men and an elephant, goes like this — When a group of blind men, who had never come across an elephant before, encounter the tusker for the first time, they try to… · Shared by 1, including Jacob du Toit
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How Elon Musk Learns Faster And Better Than Everyone Else
7 min · · How is it even possible that Elon Musk could build four multibillion companies by his mid-40s — in four separate fields (software, energy… · Shared by 27, including Jacob du Toit, KOstas
Gabriel Weinberg
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
Summary · · Update: Since this post came out, I co-authored a book about it called Super Thinking. Get notified about book updates here (currently… · Shared by 5674, including Konrad Weber, Tim Herbig, Data Science Renee, Thomas Schwenke, Klaus Eck, wahalulu@fosstodon.org Marck Vaisman, Matthias Sala, Antonio Vieira Santos, Pat Kua, Sid Sijbrandij, John Jantsch, Christiane Link, Leo Polovets, Craig Mod, Melanie Deziel (she/her), designshard, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Stefan T, Chris Messina
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Mental models I use for optimisation: Engines
3 min · · An Engine is a directional foundation for resource gathering. Plans, in contrast, tend to have a binary outcome. · Shared by 1, including Jacob du Toit
James Clear
Mental Models: How to Train Your Brain to Think in New Ways
8 min · · Learn how to think better and gain a mental edge. · Shared by 308, including Chris R Becker, Jacob du Toit, Vikram Dutt, Tom Connor, Jorge David
medium.com
A framework for first principles thinking
9 min · · leverage mental models to think better · Shared by 6, including Jacob du Toit
medium.com
Cognitive bias cheat sheet
16+ min · · Because thinking is hard. · Shared by 61, including Matt Walton R.TCMP, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Jacob du Toit, @brianleroux@indieweb.social 💙, designshard, Ines Bieler, Howard Getson, Johannes Dornisch
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Mental Models: Look At Your Decision-Making Process, Not The Outcome
5 min · · What makes a good decision? When I ask people that question, I often get answers like: · Shared by 18, including Jacob du Toit, Darius Foroux, Arin Basu
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The Truth Curve
1 min · · (updated version from Testing with Humans) I wanted to share one of the slides from my talk at QCon last week. I call it the truth curve. On the X-axis is your product sophistication. On the Y-axis is… · Shared by 5, including Jacob du Toit