There’s research on what’s called the Babble Effect, which is the idea that the more you talk in a meeting, the more likely you are to get selected as the leader of a team. So we reward people who dominate the conversation, even though they are not actually better at leadership. Often they’re worse, because they fail to include and learn from the voices around them in the room. They’re so obsessed with being the smartest person in the room that they fail to make the room smarter. And I think what happens there is we’re consistently mistaking their confidence for competence.
Adam Grant
Food for Thought
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Time and New Things
You’re a time billionaire
Hustle Pornstars
Koi No Yokan
Comparison is the thief of joy.
The Internet.
The view that humans are morally more important than animals appears later and may be socially acquired.
Killdozer; let me tell you a tale.
On a futon at 30?
Pink Steering Wheel
Self is a Victim
Buy a Tesla?
The Law of Triviality
Play To Your Strengths.
Primal Instinct
Bring Your Mind Inside Your Heart and the World Will Not Trouble You