Noteworthy Nonsense
Notes on Communication, Decision-Making and Business & Investing
The Wisdom in Finding Out for Yourself
The way I see it, you’re either filled up to the ears with people’s thoughts or, periodically, you check for yourself. The best diet for most people may not be the one that winds up working for you. They may be meant for endurance exercise where you’re meant for the gym. The population may have genetics that predispose them to higher relative levels of Vitamin D whereas you need to take 5,000 IUs/day. Your friends (who are probably right) warn you about dating them, but you must know for yourself.
On The Art of Changing Someone’s Mind
“As Kahneman suggests, the reasons people give for their beliefs are rarely the whole story—and direct confrontation usually fails to change those beliefs on the spot.”
Direct vs Indirect Communication: Why We Don’t Always Say What We Mean
With direct communication, politeness and tact isn’t the emphasis. Instead, the primary concern is the information itself. Where indirectness can allow too many costly misunderstandings to gum up a system, directness is clear as day. That’s one takeaway.
Indirect communication can have a softer touch as it suggests, implies, or indicates. This flanking maneuver doesn’t oppressively tell, which can antagonize egos, but instead it asks the audience to play a part in understanding.
Hanlon’s Razor: Improve Your Social IQ
There are these small misfortunes in daily life, where a little mistreatment thrusts itself upon us.
If you’ve ever been left off an important e-mail, not saved a seat, criticized unfairly in public, or struck by a passive-aggressive comment, you’ve probably experienced this.
The Psychology of Personal Finance: Meet Diligent, Destitute and Dickey (Part 3)
There are three broad approaches you can take for your personal finances, which in large part is behavioral. And so, I’ve modeled these approaches with three fictional characters.
Thus, meet: Diligent the Rational, Destitute the Emotional and Dickey the Blend
The Psychology of Personal Finance: Meet Diligent, Destitute and Dickey (Part 2)
There are three broad approaches you can take for your personal finances, which in large part is behavioral. And so, I’ve modeled these approaches with three fictional characters.
Thus, meet: Diligent the Rational, Destitute the Emotional and Dickey the Blend
The Psychology of Personal Finance: Meet Diligent, Destitute and Dickey
There are three broad approaches you can take for your personal finances, which in large part is behavioral. And so, I’ve modeled these approaches with three fictional characters.
Thus, meet: Diligent the Rational, Destitute the Emotional and Dickey the Blend.