Tag Archives: planning
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke won over $4-million as a professional poker player. Her book, Thinking in Bets, will teach you almost nothing about winning at poker, but it will give you a valuable framework and many useful tools to help you become a better decision-maker. Continue reading
Escape from Model Land
Have you ever noticed that when you buy something online they show you a bunch of other stuff under a heading like “you might also enjoy?” Obviously, the retailer is trying to get you to spend more money on their … Continue reading
Measure What Matters
Do you make New Year’s resolutions? It’s only mid-January 2021 so there’s still time. On the other hand, it’s mid-January and plenty of people have already abandoned theirs. Maybe New Year’s resolutions are broken so often because they’re so vague, … Continue reading
The Optimist’s Telescope
Bina Venkataraman thinks we need to get way better at thinking ahead. The decisions we make today will impact ourselves and our planet for generations to come. Her book, The Optimist’s Telescope, is about why we make reckless decisions and how we can develop the foresight to make better ones. Continue reading
20/20 Foresight
What better way to start 2020 than a book called 20/20 Foresight? There’s an old Danish proverb that says, “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” Difficult for sure, but we do it all the time anyway. … Continue reading
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