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Instead, we want to leave room for doubt. As Karl Weick, an educational psychologist at the University of Michigan, advises in the second opening quote, wisdom is finding the right balance between having confidence in what you know and leaving enough room for doubt in case you are wrong.32 That’s the balance we are looking for here. When we treat t

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Product Mistakes that Apply to Careers: focusing on acquisition instead of retention (focusing on networking instead of relationships & reputation). Or working in a space that doesn’t get more valuable over time (e.g working in a dying industry), or building another “me-too” product without differentiation (not taking enough career risk). Choos... See more

Before I begin telling you what I think, I want to establish that I’m a “dumb shit” who doesn’t know much relative to what I need to know. Whatever success I’ve had in life has had more to do with my knowing how to deal with my not knowing than anything I know. The most important thing I learned is an approach to life based on principles that helps... See more

As people know, in the business—like Bill Gates is known for this, about being really tough in meetings, and arguing and stuff like that—that's just a way of testing your own understanding of things. By arguing with others about it, that's how you learn. And, if somebody can't take the arguing with it, then maybe they don't really believe in what t

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