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How big is the high school? The bigger the high school, the bigger the alumni network, which may influence your ability to choose future networks like college, spouse, and jobs.How diverse is the school so you can find nodes and sub-networks that fit you best? With more options, there is a higher probability you can find a high achieving sub-networ... See more

nfx.com • Your Life Is Driven by Network Effects

check out Do What You Are, which uses the Myers-Briggs framework to break down hundreds of career options by personality type. Even if you aren’t moved by Myers-Briggs, it’s a useful compendium of every way imaginable to make a buck.

Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success

It could be that the smartest people, with the highest potential, automagically gather in the same place through a process of mystical osmosis. Let's call that Hypothesis A... Or possibly it could be that the formation of the cluster is what transforms people into geniuses. Being a part of a group makes B players look like A players, and A players ... See more

Rohit Krishnan • Eureka! On the clustering of geniuses

TO BETTER UNDERSTAND yourself as a system, examine three circles of your loyalties:

Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

As one example, I showed that Claude can get remarkably far as an entirely automated entrepreneur with the prompt: think step-by-step. generate 20 ideas for an app aimed at HR professionals. then evaluate and pick the best one that would make a good visual app. build a playable prototype of that. interview me as a potential customer about the proto... See more

Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures

Jannie builds around the jockey when he sees a business opportunity, provided of course that it’s a special opportunity in PSG’s field of play. Then the business model is almost the jockey’s prerogative, within bounds of course. Often the model is not the point. Jannie would pick the guy and respect his opinion and say: “You tackle it for us.”

Carié Maas • Jannie Mouton: And then they fired me

In Roche’s studies of executives, the average number of mentors was two and among females it was three. Dean Keith Simonton explains: Prospective pupils should draw upon many mentors rather than just one. The same advice has been given in choice of models, and for the same reason. With many mentors on which to base their personal growth, talented y

Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

One of the most salient psychological characteristics of those who choose professional careers is a strong need for autonomy. People choose professions (rather than, say, corporate careers) because the work is not routine or rigidly structured. Thus, the professions have more than their share of people with an aversion to taking directions.

David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm

A few months ago I was at a conference where Robin Hanson spoke about prediction markets.[1] He argued that given how much of companies' outcomes are driven by who they choose to hire, and how non-rigorous the process of selecting employees and revisiting those selections is, there's a literal trillion-dollar opportunity in getting it right. Predic... See more