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Obviousness fallacy
Obviousness fallacy is the notion that the options that are most convenient, most popular, and most easy to understand and manage, are the best ones. By extension, the less convenient, less popular, and less visible options seem riskier, require more effort, and are just generally lower quality in some way. One example of obviousness fallacy…
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Permission: To wait, or not to wait?
Generally, if you wait around for permission to change in your professional career, to start a creative project, or to improve yourself in some way, you’re going to be waiting a long time. It’s better to try to make a change today, as soon as you can—even now, if possible. The adage, “Ask forgiveness, not…
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20 years of writing daily
Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok’s work at Marginal Revolution is a core reference for this little blog I write. I’m really enjoying this interview that David Perell put together:
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Montage fallacy
The training montage of Rocky was the most outstanding part of the story to me. It was inspiring to watch Rocky’s personal transformation, from a bum to a champion, effectively take place in several minutes. This kind of montage is a common element in all sorts of movies. It’s an incredibly boring part of the…
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Confidence, from within
A few months ago, I read this piece by Kunal Gupta on conditional confidence. He observes that he reached a state of confidence after an event, like a successful outcome or an achivement. For example, one statement would be, “Once I hire people to work with me, then I can feel confident in my business…
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Manifesting works as an initial step
Chris Do asks, “Do you believe in manifesting?” He expands, “About 10 years ago, I started telling people that I wanted to travel the world, and have other people pay for it. Now, I’m invited to speak (all over the world) and am paid for it.” Chris shares a couple of additional examples, like daydreaming…
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Take an inventory of your top ten memories
There’s a saying, “You’re only as good as your last performance.” For example, an author might say, “You’re only as good as your last article.” That’s all good until you experience a setback—or perhaps an unfortunate streak of them. If you buy too heavily into the statement, “You’re only as good as your last performance,”…
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Writing, in the Office of the CEO
Over a year ago, GitLab put a job post out for a Senior Executive Content Communications Manager (CEO), which involved ownership of the current CEO content program (including elements of publicity, guest posts, speaking topics and decks, social media, category creation, etc.) and developing and executing a content plan for the next three years. Similarly,…
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Intergenerational advantages
Children of entrepreneurs are more likely to start their own businesses; this paper pegs an increased likelihood at 60%. This has implications for financial well-being; as Robert Frank writes in Richistan, “Most Richistanis got where they are by tapping into this global river of cash—usually by starting their own companies.” It’s important to acknowledge this…
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Contentions: Bringing creativity, brand, and distribution together
As an expertise, marketing has an even wider set of specialties and experiences than many other lines of work. Even in the world of organic internet marketing, it’s easy to experience overwhelm considering the many channels; TikTok, SEO, Twitter (X), LinkedIn, Threads, Reddit, etc. While marketing can be extremely fun to work on (and equal…