The Book I Didn’t Read… and the One I Did I was 15 when my dad handed me a book: “The Mental Game of Baseball.” It changed my life immediately. Just kidding… I didn’t read it. Instead, I told him I did, and just continued on playing how I did before — inconsistently, lacking confidence, […]
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Language provides a deep comparative sense of things we experience. Commonly I hear things like, ” I can’t keep my head above water…. It feels like I’m drowning… I’ve been thrown in the deep end… the best I can do is just tread water…” Like Nassim Taleb’s triad: Fragility, Robustness, and Antifragility, this triad would
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Like anyone else on earth, one of the biggest obstacles I deal with on a daily basis is the friction — the resistance — to do what I need to do. One approach is focusing on all the elements within myself — goals, habits, invisible scripts and stories I tell myself, etc. — to get
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What common contexts include filters? …Coffee, HVAC systems, Instagram, engines, reports and data views, more. They’re tools to implement inclusion/exclusion rules — which presuppose a deeper purpose (keeping grounds out of morning coffee, cleaning the air we breathe, looking prettier, keeping the motor running, answering a questions about business, etc.). Harmony between openness and closed-ness
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Assembly theory is used to grasp the underlying principles and mechanisms determining the emergence and behavior of complex systems — from simple parts — in physics, biology, etc. It’s also useful in addressing the most basic human questions, including: What, to me, would be a life well lived? Anybody’s life is comprised of discrete objects,
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