Noteworthy Nonsense
Notes on Communication, Decision-Making and Business & Investing
Maya Angelou: How You Made Them Feel
What matters most in your daily interactions isn’t so much the specific actions we take or the words we say that people remember most, but how someone was made to feel: listened to or ignored, included or left out, amused or exhausted, or big instead of small.
Reframing Failure: What Did You Fail at Today?
Sarah Blakely, businesswoman and founder of Spanx, grew up with her father asking her, “What did you fail at today?”
System 1 and System 2 Thinking: How We Make Decisions
You might think we make all of our decisions the same way, but it turns out we have two very different decision-making systems.
Nobel Prize winning Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, in his book Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow, details two cognitive processes for decision-making: fast System 1 and slow System 2.
Jeff Bezos’s 2016 Letter to Shareholders: A Skeptical View of Proxies
In business, proxies are numbers, figures, charts or processes that decision-makers often rely on to quickly get a feel for current and future performance. Proxies are a 50,000 foot view of a given situation, and they’re typically easy to generate which is part of the value.