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Is There a Way to be Successful Without All That Crass Self-Promotion?

I just finished a book called The Invisibles: The Power Of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self Promotion. While it wasn’t the blockbuster that Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won’t Stop Talking was, it was a worthy successor for people like us, who, we are told, live and die Read more

Striking a Balance

Any piece of advice I get, I can immediately think of a half a dozen situations where it wouldn’t apply; or where, if I continued it, reducto ad absurdium, it would be counterproductive, even dangerous. Of course, the rejoinder to this line of thought is “Just use your common sense!” apparently oblivious to the fact Read more

Nobody Knows Nuthin’

The more I read about success, productivity, growth, etc., the more I become convinced that nobody really knows anything. At best, they are expanding what works for them into a general principle for others to learn from. At worst, they’re mixing up correlation and causation, usually as a form of fundamental attribution error. Either way Read more