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One CEO’s guide to productivity. Sam Corcos, Levels’ CEO, has been called the "ultimate optimizer of work, life, the universe, and everything." I studied his productivity playbook and pulled out tactics almost anyone can try for themselves.

readthegeneralist.com • Levels: A Cultural Anomaly | the Generalist

Even scientists who are most concerned with assessing individual differences in personality would concede that our ability to predict how particular people will respond in particular situations is very limited. This “predictability ceiling” is typically reflected in a maximum statistical correlation of .30 between measured individual differences on

Lee Ross • The Person and the Situation

In a famous paper, ‘Are ideas getting harder to find?’, Nicholas Bloom and collaborators found that research productivity has been falling quite dramatically since the 1970s. Their data suggests that it now takes 18 times as many resources as it did then to work out how to double the number of transistors on a microchip.

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Galton that if the characteristic behaviors

Samuel Barondes • Making Sense of People: Detecting and Understanding Personality Differences

we understand the talent search methods of Peter Thiel—one of the most successful talent finders of all time—as intimately linked to Peter’s philosophical and indeed moral judgments of people.

Daniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

If we were hiring at random, for instance, then in a pool of a hundred applicants we’d have a 1% chance of success, and in a pool of a million applicants we’d have a 0.0001% chance. Yet remarkably, the math of the secretary problem doesn’t change. If you’re stopping optimally, your chance of finding the single best applicant in a pool of a hundred

Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Tobe Freeman

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But McAdams’s contribution goes far beyond clever portraiture. The crucial lesson from his work is that getting to know someone is not just a matter of knowing more about the person; that “more” must be a different kind of information. You have to go beyond traits, such as how kind the person is or how talkative; you have to begin understanding the

Sam Gosling • Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You

Andy Matuschak

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