Tag: lists
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Twleve Tips for Staying Alive
Dr. Doug McGuff is an emergency physician in South Carolina. From this perspective, he has compiled a list of twelve tips on avoiding what he calls ‘negative Black Swan events’—an early death from things we consider unlikely (but are all-too-common to emergency physicians). Drive the biggest vehicle you can afford to drive. Never get on…
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The Ideal News/Media Outlet
Describing his new rules of news, Dan Gillmore provides 22 rules that he would insist upon if he ran a news/media outlet (and, in turn, describes what many would believe to be the ideal news organisation). This particularly caught my eye: We would replace PR-speak and certain Orwellian words and expressions with more neutral, precise…
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Entrepreneurial Reads and Annual Reads
I’m a real sucker for book lists. Entrepreneurial Reads is a wiki list of suggested reading for entrepreneurs. The list contains books written specifically for entrepreneurs (e.g. The E-Myth Revisited) in addition to much fiction containing entrepreneurial lessons (e.g. The Fountainhead). That link came via What Books Are Worth Reading Once Per Year?–a post by…
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Publishing in Scientific Journals
Not being a professional or published scientist, the workings of academic journals are foreign to me. As a semi-regular reader of them I really should at least understand the processes involved, and that’s where My Dominant Hemisphere‘s outline of the publihing process and list of 18 interesting journal facts comes in handy. Multiple surveys have…
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The 12 Core Human Skills
Elaborating on a concept from one of my favourite posts written by Dilbert creator Scott Adams (career advice: either “become the best at one specific thing” or “become very good (top 25%) at two or more things”), Josh Kaufman of Personal MBA suggests the 12 core human skills that we should strive to become very good…
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Books to Ignore
Like timesink productivity websites, books written purely to instruct us what books to read are inherently counterproductive. The Second Pass does the opposite, producing a list of ten ‘classic’ books not to read. White Noise by Don DeLillo Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez The Road by…
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Story Types for Speeches (and TV)
Each and every time I begin to structure a speech or presentation I consider which ‘story type’ to use (if it is suitable at all). Not being particularly well-versed in these, I recently came across a couple of useful resources. First, Nick Morgan’s description of the five “basic stories that Western culture has to make…
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30 Ways to a Better Person
As Trent says, this article’s original title—30 Days to a Better Man—may exclude a large proportion of readers, and this is a bad thing. It’s a bad thing because these 30 articles compiled together to help you “improve in […] relationships, fitness and health, career, and personal finances” are not only excellent, but apply equally to both…
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The Science of Persuasion
Persuasion is not an art; it’s a science. That’s according to Yes!—the book by social psychologists Robert Cialdini, Noah Goldstein and Steve Martin that proposes to offer 50 ‘scientifically proven ways to be persuasive’. For his review of the book, Alex Moskalyuk lists these 50 ways to be persuasive, as gleamed from dozens of psychology studies.…
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Scams, Cons and the Psychology Behind Them
Back in January Jason pointed to Wikipedia’s list of confidence tricks; an educational and amusing read. Now, the UK’s Office of Fair Trading has commissioned some research into why people fall victim to scams (pdf). According to the (260 page) report, here are the reasons why successful scams fool us: Appeals to trust and authority.…