Structure Tag Archive

Career map vs unmapped career

(Excerpt from Monday Musings 6 Dec 2021 by David Perell) Every industry has a map. Not a literal map, but a cognitive one filled with different skills needed to make money and produce products. Because of this, building...

December 7, 2021| Strategy, Structure drives behaviour, Success Read More

Crony beliefs vs merit beliefs

(Excerpt from Crony Beliefs by Kevin Simler) I contend that the best way to understand all the crazy beliefs out there — aliens, conspiracies, and all the rest — is to analyze them as crony beliefs. Beliefs that...

January 1, 2021| Map Is Not Territory, Structure drives behaviour Read More

Know when your maps are not useful

(Excerpt from The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish) But what physicists do so well, and most of us do so poorly, is that they carefully delimit what Newtonian and Einsteinian...

August 11, 2020| Circle of Competence, Fallibility, Map Is Not Territory, Structure drives behaviour Read More

Maps need updating

(Excerpt from The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish) We create static rules or policies that deal with the map but forget that we exist in a constantly changing world. When we...

August 11, 2020| Fallibility, Map Is Not Territory, Structure drives behaviour Read More

United States geographical advantage

(Extracted from What I Believe Least by Morgan Housel) I believe past performance is not an indicator of future returns. Markets change, history surprises, and performance is cyclical. But it’s one of the things I...

January 19, 2020| World Read More

Disney Imagineers focus on fixing confusions

(Extracted from No B. S. Direct Marketing by Dan Kennedy) one of the Disney Imagineers we met was in charge of “fixing confusion.” At any spot in any of the parks where there was a noticeable slowing of movement...

January 17, 2020| Structure drives behaviour Read More

Rules create structure as well as weak spots

(Extracted from The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant) I made a point of reading the referee’s handbook. One of the rules I gleaned from it was that each referee has a designated slot where he is supposed to be on...

December 10, 2019| Structure drives behaviour Read More

Cultural programming

(Extracted from Atomic Habits by James Clear) We don’t choose our earliest habits, we imitate them. We follow the script handed down by our friends and family, our church or school, our local community and...

October 8, 2019| Structure drives behaviour Read More

An open office reduces friction

(Extracted from Bloomberg on Bloomberg) I’ve always believed that management’s ability to influence work habits through edict is limited. Ordering something gets it done, perhaps. When you turn your back,...

October 4, 2019| Execution, Structure drives behaviour Read More

Behavior is a function of the Person in their Environment

(Extracted from Atomic Habits by James Clear) People often choose products not because of what they are, but because of where they are. If I walk into the kitchen and see a plate of cookies on the counter, I’ll...

September 27, 2019| Structure drives behaviour Read More

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