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Invention Is a Flower, Innovation Is a Weed (1999) (technologyreview.com)

12 months ago | sherilm | technologyreview.com | newest

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The day you became a better writer (2007) (dilbertblog.typepad.com)

12 months ago | sherilm | typepad.com | frontpage

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This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin (poetryfoundation.org)

12 months ago | sherilm | poetryfoundation.org | newest

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We (nytimes.com)

12 months ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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What’s a “Techie”? (seths.blog)

12 months ago | sherilm | seths.blog | newest

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How to Find a Great Job (gibsonbiddle.medium.com)

12 months ago | sherilm | medium.com | newest

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Parents Don’t Understand How Far Behind Their Kids Are in School (nytimes.com)

12 months ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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How to Imagine Jeff Bezos’ Wealth (nytimes.com)

12 months ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.[pdf] (mcgill.ca)

12 months ago | sherilm | mcgill.ca | newest

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The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Slides Are Not All Evil [pdf] (web.mit.edu)

12 months ago | sherilm | mit.edu | newest

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The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation (norvig.com)

12 months ago | sherilm | norvig.com | newest

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Once the Prince of Tennis and a Prison Inmate, Boris Becker Starts Again (nytimes.com)

12 months ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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'The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit' (2020) (theguardian.com)

12 months ago | sherilm | theguardian.com | newest

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Dumb-Dumb Bullets (armedforcesjournal.com)

12 months ago | sherilm | armedforcesjournal.com | newest

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Corporate Giants Buy Up Primary Care Practices at Rapid Pace (nytimes.com)

12 months ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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Research: Remote Workers Are More Anxious About Layoffs (hbr.org)

12 months ago | sherilm | hbr.org | newest

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Bringing Managers Back to Work (2018) (bcg.com)

12 months ago | sherilm | bcg.com | newest

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The Possibilian (2011) (newyorker.com)

12 months ago | sherilm | newyorker.com | newest

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Who Created Maslow's Iconic Pyramid? (scientificamerican.com)

a year ago | sherilm | scientificamerican.com | newest

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The next wave of AI innovation with Microsoft Bing and Edge (microsoft.com)

a year ago | sherilm | microsoft.com | frontpage

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The Real Strength of Weak Ties (stanford.edu)

a year ago | sherilm | stanford.edu | newest

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Murphy's Laws (mit.edu)

a year ago | sherilm | mit.edu | newest

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Future of Jobs: These are the most in-demand core skills in 2023 (weforum.org)

a year ago | sherilm | weforum.org | newest

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Power Is the Great Motivator (hbr.org)

a year ago | sherilm | hbr.org | newest

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“We Have 30 Extra Years”: A New Way of Thinking About Aging (stanford.edu)

a year ago | sherilm | stanford.edu | frontpage

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How to Put on Socks (excellentjourney.net)

a year ago | sherilm | excellentjourney.net | newest

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No More Snake Oil: Architecting Agility Through Antifragility (2019) (sciencedirect.com)

a year ago | sherilm | sciencedirect.com | newest

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Memo to the CEO: Are you the source of workplace dysfunction? (2017) (mckinsey.com)

a year ago | sherilm | mckinsey.com | newest

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Leadership Run Amok: The Destructive Potential of Overachievers (2006) (hbr.org)

a year ago | sherilm | hbr.org | newest

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Multiple Working Hypotheses (railsback.org)

a year ago | sherilm | railsback.org | newest

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The New Population-Control Movement (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | sherilm | theatlantic.com | newest

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Why Innovation Heroes Are a Sign of a Dysfunctional Organization (steveblank.com)

a year ago | sherilm | steveblank.com | frontpage

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The Value of Science [pdf] (caltech.edu)

a year ago | sherilm | caltech.edu | frontpage

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George Costanza’s 10 Rules for “Working Hard” in the Office (zendesk.com)

a year ago | sherilm | zendesk.com | newest

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Good Goals. What good goals look like and why (msiliski.medium.com)

a year ago | sherilm | medium.com | newest

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[flagged] Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might Be the Worst Idea in Tech (2019) (glowforge.com)

a year ago | sherilm | glowforge.com | frontpage

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Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice. (2016) (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Air Exists Because One Underemployed Guy in His 20s Saw the Last Dance (vulture.com)

a year ago | sherilm | vulture.com | newest

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Russell’s Paradox (utm.edu)

a year ago | sherilm | utm.edu | newest

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Train Wreck Management: Celebrating 180 Years of Command-and-Control (2021) (medium.com/redshift-3)

a year ago | sherilm | medium.com | newest

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Your Email Does Not Constitute My Emergency (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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Why I choose to stay in San Francisco (sfchronicle.com)

a year ago | sherilm | sfchronicle.com | newest

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What's going on here, with this human? (grahamduncan.blog)

a year ago | sherilm | grahamduncan.blog | newest

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How Emphasizing Problem Setting Can Solve Problems in Washington (2013) (behavioralscientist.org)

a year ago | sherilm | behavioralscientist.org | newest

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Regional Sayings: Say These 9 Words and We'll Tell You Where You Grew Up (rd.com)

a year ago | sherilm | rd.com | frontpage

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Your bad attitude can make you happier (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | sherilm | theatlantic.com | frontpage

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Leadership in Context – By David Epstein (davidepstein.substack.com)

a year ago | sherilm | substack.com | newest

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In China, Young People Ditch Prestige Jobs for Manual Labor (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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Luckiest Man – Lou Gehrig (baseballhall.org)

a year ago | sherilm | baseballhall.org | newest

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“An Owner’s Manual” for Google’s Shareholders (2004) (abc.xyz)

a year ago | sherilm | abc.xyz | newest

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When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message? (hbs.edu)

a year ago | sherilm | hbs.edu | newest

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Inflexibility of experts- Quantifying the Einstellung effect in chess masters (researchgate.net)

a year ago | sherilm | researchgate.net | newest

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“It never gets easier, you just go faster.” (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)

a year ago | sherilm | letterstoanewdeveloper.com | newest

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The Genesis of Genius; the Act of Creation. By Arthur Koestler (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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In defence of the Great Man Theory of history (commonreader.substack.com)

a year ago | sherilm | substack.com | newest

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Black Women and Vulnerability: What Brene Brown Got Wrong (drcareyyazeed.com)

a year ago | sherilm | drcareyyazeed.com | newest

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Cultural Souls Reflected in Their Mathematics: The Spenglerian Interpretation (dlmcn.com)

a year ago | sherilm | dlmcn.com | newest

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Essays in the Art of Writing, by Robert Louis Stevenson (gutenberg.org)

a year ago | sherilm | gutenberg.org | newest

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How much 'radical transparency' in a workplace is too much? (bbc.com)

a year ago | sherilm | bbc.com | newest

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David Foster Wallace (1996) (salon.com)

a year ago | sherilm | salon.com | newest

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Moderate Drinking Has No Health Benefits, Analysis of Decades of Research Finds (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | frontpage

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What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team (2016) (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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A Great Boss Is Confident, but Not Sure (hbr.org)

a year ago | sherilm | hbr.org | newest

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Everyone is just winging it, all the time (2014) (theguardian.com)

a year ago | sherilm | theguardian.com | newest

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Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | sherilm | wikipedia.org | newest

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Roger Federer as Religious Experience (2006) (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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Hegel by HyperText (marxists.org)

a year ago | sherilm | marxists.org | newest

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Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning (nautil.us)

a year ago | sherilm | nautil.us | newest

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Tracking down Conquest’s law on organisations (vogelwakefield.com)

a year ago | sherilm | vogelwakefield.com | newest

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Saving Management from Our Obsession with Leadership (sloanreview.mit.edu)

a year ago | sherilm | mit.edu | newest

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Welcome to Muskville, Texas (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Hifi Audio Handbook (julian.com)

a year ago | sherilm | julian.com | newest

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They will lose your data (seths.blog)

a year ago | sherilm | seths.blog | frontpage

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Whatever the Problem, It’s Probably Solved by Walking (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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AI-Powered Brain Implant Smashes Speed Record for Turning Thoughts into Text (singularityhub.com)

a year ago | sherilm | singularityhub.com | newest

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Five easy steps to kill your company (any one will do) (mintzberg.org)

a year ago | sherilm | mintzberg.org | newest

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Is Working from Home Really Working? (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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The Worry Police (randsinrepose.com)

a year ago | sherilm | randsinrepose.com | newest

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The problem with Don Norman's new book (fastcompany.com)

a year ago | sherilm | fastcompany.com | newest

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Famous Book Hoarders (lithub.com)

a year ago | sherilm | lithub.com | newest

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Painting as a Pastime by Winston S. Churchill (gutenberg.ca)

a year ago | sherilm | gutenberg.ca | newest

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How Do Volcanic Smoke Rings Form? New Clues in the Vapor (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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In Praise of Mediocrity (2018) (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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Imitation, Inspiration, and Creation: Creative Drawing by Copying Others (2016) (wiley.com)

a year ago | sherilm | wiley.com | newest

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The Deadly Sins and the Workplace (economist.com)

a year ago | sherilm | economist.com | newest

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Evidence-Based Management: The Case of HR (forbes.com/sites/stevedenning)

a year ago | sherilm | forbes.com | newest

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How often do ethics professors call their mothers? (aeon.co)

a year ago | sherilm | aeon.co | newest

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Americans Head to Europe for the Good Life on the Cheap (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | best

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The Coach in the Operating Room (2011) (newyorker.com)

a year ago | sherilm | newyorker.com | newest

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The Power of Framing in Creating Psychological Safety (leadingsapiens.com)

a year ago | sherilm | leadingsapiens.com | newest

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I Love Coffee, but I Gave It Up for MudWtr. Don’t Make My Mistake (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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The value of science (1955)[pdf] (caltech.edu)

a year ago | sherilm | caltech.edu | newest

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How Double-Loop Learning Improves Performance (leadingsapiens.com)

a year ago | sherilm | leadingsapiens.com | newest

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Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work (1983) (hbr.org)

a year ago | sherilm | hbr.org | newest

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Layoffs by Email Show What Employers Think of Their Workers (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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Rare sighting: Managers who actually know how their people get work done (leadingsapiens.com)

a year ago | sherilm | leadingsapiens.com | newest

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Why we copy leaders – intelligence as acting foolishly (leadingsapiens.com)

a year ago | sherilm | leadingsapiens.com | newest

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Inside The Global Race to Turn Water into Fuel (nytimes.com)

a year ago | sherilm | nytimes.com | newest

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D.H. Lawrence: Terra Incognita (voxpopulisphere.com)

a year ago | sherilm | voxpopulisphere.com | newest

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Confidence Is Overrated (leadingsapiens.com)

a year ago | sherilm | leadingsapiens.com | newest