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- 325Sep 5, 20181 minleadership
Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action? The Golden Circle
People don't care about what you do; they care about why you do it. Simon Sinek introduced a Golden Circle that starts from the inside out: Why? How? What? Unfortunately, mediocre leaders typically think from the outside in.
Read more → - 326Sep 4, 20181 minpsychology
Bullshit Detector
North Americans bullshit the most. Develop your mental device to detect deception, dishonesty, corruption, fraud, insincerity, hypocrisy and falsity.
Read more → - 327Sep 4, 20181 minpsychology
Bullshit Detector
Compared to deliberate deception, the cost of being exposed after bullshit is lower. The bullshit detector is a hypothetical psychological anti-deception mechanism. The key to countering bullshit lies in recognizing the asymmetry of risk; if the other party has no stakes but advocates for something, they profit when successful, but only you suffer losses when it fails, then they are bullshitting you.
Read more → - 328Sep 1, 20185 minmanagement
Managerial Leverage
Managerial leverages can maximize the output of an organization. Those leverages are information gathering, information-giving, decision-making, nudging and being a role model.
Read more → - 329Sep 1, 20185 minmanagement
Managerial Leverage
The introduction of managerial leverage is aimed at high output. Leverage should be applied in management activities such as gathering information, providing information, decision-making, nudging, and leading by example. In summary, improve time management skills, reduce interruptions; focus on activities that create positive leverage to increase leverage ratios.
Read more → - 330Aug 30, 20181 minlife
Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work?
Some job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged on a day-to-day basis with a young family. We should be careful with time frame and approach balance in a balanced way.
Read more → - 331Aug 30, 20181 minlife
Nigel Marsh: How to Make Work-Life Balance Work
Work often fundamentally conflicts with family life. If you don't set limits and design your life, companies and governments will drain you. Balance should occasionally be within your reach. Life is diverse; seizing the right moment can yield significant returns from small investments.
Read more → - 332Aug 28, 20182 minpsychology
Energy-level Playbook
There are four levels of energy: zombie, robot, human and rock star. Zombies had better not work or do little chore work. Robots do preset work. Humans do exploratory work. Rock stars can do anything and the best job for them is creative jobs.
Read more → - 333Aug 28, 20182 minpsychology
Energy Level Playbook
Energy levels can be divided into four categories: Zombie, Robot, Mortal, and Transcendent. What can you do in each of these states? Zombie: Don't work or do mindless tasks; Robot: Do preset tasks; Mortal: Engage in exploratory work; Transcendent: Innovate.
Read more → - 334Aug 27, 20182 minwealth
Scarcity: How We Fall into Poverty and Busyness
How to break free from the trap of being busy and poor: drive yourself to do important things; conserve cognitive bandwidth; start acting when resources and bandwidth are abundant, applying cognitive bandwidth to what truly matters; transform fragmented but necessary reminders into one-time actions; maintain slack to handle unforeseen events; plan tasks reasonably and proceed in stages.
Read more → - 335Aug 26, 20181 minwealth
Chen Zhiwu: The Three Dimensions of Wealth Creation Ability
Depth: The things that can be produced in a unit of time; Breadth: The expansion or innovation of the market's geographical scope across regions and countries, creating new industries such as consumer goods, industrial varieties, and spatial expansion; Length: Time dimension - financial securities.
Read more → - 336Aug 25, 20181 minmarket
Elements of Value
When customers evaluate a product or a service, they weigh the perceived value against the asking price. Products and services deliver fundamental elements of value that address four kinds of needs: functional, emotional, life-changing, and social impact.
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About Tian Pan
I'm Tian Pan, an engineer-founder focused on agentic engineering — building autonomous AI systems and scaling engineering teams. I write practical guides on system design, technical leadership, and shipping with AI agents. Previously an early engineer at Uber, Brex, and IoTeX.
