Noteworthy Nonsense

Notes on Communication, Decision-Making and Business & Investing

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Help Isn’t Coming, You’re The Help

At some point in life you (likely) have the insight that all adults were children once. And, willingly and unwillingly, they made the transition into adulthood that increased their agency (or most of them anyways). This was that day for me.

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Why Leaders Overpromise
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Why Leaders Overpromise

“Overpromising may be necessary to get the resources. It may be necessary to get the initial enthusiasm that is needed to do anything at all. There is so much inertia that realistic promises are at a major disadvantage. They’re at the major disadvantage because everybody else is over-promising.” - Daniel Kahneman

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