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"As a leader, you've got to live in three time zones simultaneously, the past, the present, and the future. Everything you do has got to honor the past, deliver in the present, set the table for a more prosperous future. And as you think that way, that's why trust building becomes mission-critical."
— Former Campbell Soup CEO, Doug Conant ( FS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Transcript)
Explore Your Curiosity
★ "It turns out that reality has a surprising amount of detail, and those details can matter a lot to figuring out what the root problem or best solution is. So if I want to help, I can't treat those details as a black box: I need to open it up and see the gears inside. Otherwise, anything I suggest will be wrong—or even if it's right, I won't have enough "shared language" with my friend for it to land correctly."
— Listen
★ "I call this my rule of good code: If the product doesn't work well, the code is not good. In other words, there is no such thing as good code in the abstract; good code can only exist if it's producing a working product. Over and over I see some engineers producing great product quickly, and when I see the code it's usually well factored and smartly built. It's not surprising since it's hard to quickly build good product in a complicated system with code that is poorly architected or factored or not tested. Conversely, when I see programmers not launching features quickly, the issue is often overengineering. Or when engineers do launch quickly but the quality is bad, then the issue is usually under-engineering or sloppy code."
Timeless Insight
"There are some people whose confidence outweighs their knowledge, and they're happy to say things which are wrong. And then there are other people who probably have all the knowledge but keep quiet because they're scared of saying things."
— Helen Jenkins, on the problem of communicating scientific uncertainty.
Tiny Thought
The opportunity cost of your time should increase every year.
Recommended Reading
"The important thing about friends is that you need to have them before disaster befalls you. One reason is that, as we shall see later, people are only likely to make the effort to help you if they are already your friend. We are all much less likely to help strangers or people we know only slightly – despite what we sometimes claim. Making friends, however, requires a great deal of effort and time."
Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships by Robin Dunbar
Friendships are more important than we realize. The closer the friendship the more it matters. Friendships protect us against disease, cognitive decline, and embed us with a sense of trust in the community. They also require constant reinforcement to maintain their strength.
Dunbar's book is a great exploration of relationships answering the questions: what is a friend, why they matter to our health, how they are formed and end, our relationships with kin, as well as the differences between females and males (as well as introverts and extroverts).
Quick Hits
+ On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking
+ A simple rule change could mean check-mate for unfair advantage in chess.
+ Our top Tweet of the week.
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