Your connections are your customers. So if you have a LinkedIn account stocked with a couple of hundred current connections, maybe now’s the time to spend less time on growing your network and more time on nurturing the connections you have. Networks aren’t just about breadth – they’re also about depth.
Tag: knowledge
Econ as Anatomy
We shouldn’t let the genuine triumphs of the experimental method overshadow the rest of the field. And we should staunchly resist anyone who uses methodological dogmas to veto well-established truths – or selectively pretend they don’t exist.
Why Homeschoolers Love To Read
I saw the headline in Monday’s Harvard Gazette: “Life Stories Keep Harvard Bibliophile Fixed to the Page.” My first thought was, ‘I bet he was homeschooled.” He was.
The Danger and Usefulness of Labels
It’s better to eschew labels altogether until you have a lot of clear self-knowledge. When you don’t, they stymie the process of getting it and lure you into thinking the label provides meaning. It doesn’t.
Left and Right are Bad, Left is Much Worse
I’m finding that many moderates, libertarians and independents have lost perspective on left/right cultural dynamics. I think, sometimes, their desire to not take sides (good for them), has made them equate both sides to being equal in effect and harm.
Resentment Not Hate
Full-blown “hate” is a rare motive. But that hardly means that political actors are well-intentioned. The emotional spectrum is wide. And the emotion I routinely see in politics is not hatred, but its milder cousin: resentment.
Growth Over Glory
When giving a lecture before an audience of ethnobotany/entheogen enthusiasts, Terence Mckenna offered the following advice to those who dared to venture along the psychedelic path: “refuse to be paralyzed by astonishment.”
Words Poorly Used #111 — Echo Chamber
Confirmation bias, a fancier name for the echo chamber meme, is an important addendum to the human psyche. It becomes a bad quality when it is improperly used.
Helplessness Is Not a Virtue, Either
It still strikes me as odd when I see people expressing pride in the fact that they are not armed. As if that’s a virtue, or a sign of moral superiority. They’re basically saying, “I’m just so noble and awesome, because if armed thugs attack me or my family, I can’t do a damn thing about it!”
“Self-Authentic” Is Not a Synonym for “Self-Deprecating”
It takes honesty to be frank about your obstacles. It takes the same to be frank about your opportunities. Keep on keeping it real, but don’t let your obstacles monopolize your concept of self-authenticity.