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Those who say we’re often better off, like Jonah Lehrer, tech writer and author of How We Decide, claim that stimulating our brains in different ways can make us more creative and open to new ideas.
Daniel Sieberg • The Digital Diet: The 4-step plan to break your tech addiction and regain balance in your life
manage that is by speaking directly to their situation and context by excluding everybody else. Far better to be loved by someone than ignored by everyone.
Rob Fitzpatrick • Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction
His life’s work is devoted to helping experts build better businesses.
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
“You’re going to teach us the hard science of management without even touching on people selection, task matching, motivation or team formation, the four most essential ingredients of management?”
Tom DeMarco • The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management
Robert Epstein • Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays
A consultant named Chris, for example, pushed the quality of his team’s client work “much higher” by relegating email to one hour in the morning and a half hour in the evening, while also demanding that his team observe a three-hour deep-work period
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo, promotes play through comedy; he instigated an improv class at the company. As a former stand-up comedian, he knows that improv forces people to stretch their minds and think more flexibly, unconventionally, and creatively.