Another Alain de Botton interview, this time with Krista Tippett whose “On Being” podcast often covers interesting topics on relationships, spirituality etc. I am a romantic and an optimist, yet I find such wisdom in Alain’s kind and compassionate realism and anti-romanticism. If you are serious about your relationships (with lovers, friends or colleagues) I … Continue reading Being realistic about love
Alain de Botton is a wonderful modern day philosopher with a very practical take on modern life emphasising how we can be emotionally healthy. He has done quite a few podcasts on many different topics, all well worth listening to. In this one he talks a little about his background and a wide variety of … Continue reading Practical philosophy and taking responsibility for our communication
[Farnam Street Podcast] Philip Tetlock on The Art and Science of Super Forecasting http://podplayer.net/#/?id=24093071 via @PodcastAddict Phil Tetlock forms teams of “super forecasters” who are amazing accurate at predicting the probabilites of real world events, in their case often used to predict the likelihoods of complex real world events for the intelligence community. It has … Continue reading Super Forecasting
The Knowledge Project Podcast Shane Parish with Michael Lombardi, former general manger of the Cleveland Browns and coach of the New England Patriots. It’s a really dense podcast and you find yourself having to pause just to absorb some of the sentences because they are so packed with wisdom. Four key aspects of leadership 1. … Continue reading Leadership, coaching and managing
A truly inspiring podcast that I would recommend anyone interested in any of the following topics to have a listen to. Key insights and takeaways for me: Business leadership: Being decisive and moving fast, yet still caring very personally for the people you work with Purpose: Being driven by a real need and passion not … Continue reading Nancy Lublin, CEO of Crisis Text hotline
Great post for people in the investment field: Farnham Street is an amazing blog dedicated to discussing mental models and they do a great job of explaining the challenges of proximate vs root causes and how to deal with the deductive problems that can occur when we jump to conclusions too quickly. https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/05/proximate-vs-root-causes/ In investments … Continue reading Ask “why?” five times…. Proximate causes vs root causes, Narrative fallacy and Mental Models
A review of decision making literature from UCL on what makes for good decisions in committees is particularly relevant for investment committees: 1. Diversity of participants (functional diversity) with different independent expertise or knowledge makes optimal decision making more likely (finding global rather than local maxima more likely with different starting points for the mathematical … Continue reading Improving decision making in committees
I was listening to a podcast which reminded me of a really interesting counterintuitive truth: we are more creative when we have constraints. People think creativity will happen when “I make enough space in my life and have this perfect zen moment and can unleash my creativity.” But creativity seems to come better when we … Continue reading Creative Constraints
The fun bit is there are many ways to learn. Books, podcasts, videos, lectures, demonstrations, and doing it yourself. I have learnt that the optimal approach to learning is different for different people. Personally I find my self quite visual and auditory, if I can visualise a problem or listen to an explanation I can … Continue reading How do we learn? How should we learn?
What’s this blog all about? Acquiring knowledge and acquiring wisdom. Why is that important? Why learn? How do we learn? What do we want to learn? What impact do we hope to have through sharing these insights? Read on and join me on the journey. Continue reading The Introspective Fool
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