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Why Legacy Media is Losing Market Share - How Nine and Seven West Media Lost Their Way

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Raising Venture Capital in 2024 with Julie Krieger from Pari Passu Ventures

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Is Your Private School ‘Network’ Really Worth $500,000 over 12 Years?

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Lean Marketing: Insights and Strategies from Allan Dib

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Actually...You Can Say What You Want with Joe Avati

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Once I get that girl, then I’ll be happy.

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Doing Nothing is the Hardest Thing You Can Do

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Charlie Munger Slams Venture Capitalists — Is He Right? The Truth About VC Returns

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Why New Venture Firms Must Create Content to Compete

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3 Steps to 10X Your Venture Fund’s Pipeline of Limited Partners

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My Top 50 Metal Albums of All-Time

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Cynicism is a Disease — why we must fight it at all costs.

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Regret — how to use it to your advantage.

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The Struggle Within — and how to conquer every day.

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Why English Dominates the World — it has nothing to do with ‘white privilege’.

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Transform Your Mindset: The Shocking Effect Changing My Environment Had on My Mood

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AI Won’t Replace You… …If You Don’t Let It.

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10 Ways to Reduce Client Churn at Your Agency or Consultancy

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Your Screen Time is Killing You

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How my podcast made over a million dollars in under 12 months

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This Cold Email Made Me $300,000

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Mastering the Art of Learning: An Interview with Scott H. Young

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Blackbird VC’s Niki Scevak on raising the firm’s first $29M fund

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Why Impact Venture Funds Under-Perform

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Exposed: How I Was Discriminated Against By a Big 4 Firm for Being Male

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AI and the Coming Productivity Paradox

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The Downsides of Diversity Quotas

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Life is All About Key Plays

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Setting Goals Isn’t Enough: Intentions and Leading Indicators are Critical

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Idealism and Unrealistic Expectations Are Holding You Back

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How to Improve Your Mobility and Flexibility

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Will ChatGPT and AI Replace Us?

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40 Bullshit Excuses You Tell Yourself

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On Turning 40, Kobe Bryant, and Second Acts

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The Problem with Tribalism in Crypto

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The Passion Trap

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Asking for Mental Health Care: How to Make It Easier

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How Covid Destroyed My Identity, Left Me Pushing 40 and Staring into the Abyss

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Success is Pointless Without Someone to Share it With

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50 Lessons Learned from 10 Years in Business

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WEB3’S MENTAL HEALTH TRAPS

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What If You Got Paid For Your Attention?

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Can You Be Too Independent?

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What is the Optimal Home Office Temperature?

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Make It Sustainable

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Can We Put the Future of Work into Code?

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Where My Motivation Comes From

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Why Corporate Wellness Programs are a Waste of Time and Money

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60 Percent of Australia‘s Knowledge Workers Are Ready to Quit Their Jobs — How Leaders Can Respond.

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Why Most Success Advice is Bulls*t

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How to Beat State Anxiety in 20 Seconds and Get Focused

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Why Rejection Hurts So Much — and what to do about it.

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Can Acquired Companies Keep Their Cool?

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Yes, 10,000 Steps is Very Possible When Working From Home.

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Its Never Been Easier and Harder to Pursue Business or a Creative Art

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This Organization Is Giving People Five Days to Work Four

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How to Enjoy Your Carby Lunch Without Crashing

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Why You Can’t Trust News Media

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Forget Returning to the Office — head to a Third Space instead.

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How Many Hours Should You Work Per Week?

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Stop Inviting Unnecessary People to Your Meetings

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If You’re In, Be All-In

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Work Won’t Validate You — But it Can Liberate You.

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Nanny State: Australia’s Draconian Lockdown Laws

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Why I Stopped Reading Self-Help Books

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Does the Four-Day Workweek Just Expose Inefficient Workplaces?

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Open Letter to Deloitte Australia CEO, Adam Powick, on building a truly flexible and fulfilling workplace.

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Deloitte's Work Anywhere policy: true flexibility or just lip service?

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Why the Right to Disconnect is a Bad Idea

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Capitalism, Life Satisfaction, and Happiness - a Curious Paradox

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Stressed At Work? Try Embracing Negative Emotions.

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How Slow Breathing Helps You Focus at Work

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How Being Social Helps You Focus at Work

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How Physical Activity Improves our Focus and Cognitive Function

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What To Eat To Stay Focused For Longer

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Sleep: Mother Nature’s Ultimate Biohack

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The Importance of Values Alignment to Performance at Work

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How Direct Sunlight Exposure Improves Your Focus, Mood, and Creativity

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The Science on Purpose at Work

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The Real Impact of Incentives on Performance at Work

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Follow Your Passion — but only if it’s the right type

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Play To Your Strengths

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4 Ways to Counter the Toxic Effects of Sitting All Day

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Slack is Killing Your Productivity

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How to Stay Focused in an Open-Plan Office

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12 Health Supplements to Boost Your Focus, Memory, and Mood

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How Fasting Elevates Your Focus

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Why External Success Didn’t Buy Me Happiness —but the freedom to find it.

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Why Working in a Cafe Could Help or Hinder Your Productivity

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How to Beat Zoom Fatigue

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How Self Awareness Can Help Us Become Productivity Rockstars

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Why I Stopped Using Clubhouse

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The Number One Thing Holding Your Productivity Back…

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How Being Bored Makes You More Productive

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Clubhouse: Putting the Social Back into Social Media?

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How to Get Over Your Fear of Speaking on Clubhouse

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What Sociobiologists and the Intellectual Dark Web Have in Common

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Three Reasons Most Corporate Innovation Programs Fail

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Why Engaging Startups can Drive Corporate Innovation Initiatives

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How to Develop An Innovative Culture Without Compromising The Status Quo

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50 Common Mistakes Corporate Innovation Teams Should Avoid

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The Hierarchy of Needs for Corporate Innovation

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Why You Should Disrupt Yourself — and How I Did

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The 5 Funding Traps of Corporate Innovation Projects

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Success Metrics for Corporate Innovation Programs and Teams

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How Legal Teams Can Enable Corporate Innovation

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Where Ideas Go to Die and How to Revive Them

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27 Tools to Accelerate your Corporate Innovation efforts

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13 Must Haves Before You Run a Corporate Hackathon

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Benchmark Your Company’s Innovation Maturity

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Get Out Of The Building for Corporate Innovation Efforts

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The Hard Truth about Corporate Innovation

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What Might We Do in the Future?

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The 4 Ps of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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6 Approaches to Corporate Innovation Programs

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Corporates are from Venus, Startups are from Mars

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The Top 10 Company Pivots of All-Time

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10 Innovation Labs to visit in Singapore

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KPIs and Employee Incentives to Encourage Corporate Innovation

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Why Traditional Metrics like NPV, IRR and RONA Kill Innovation

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Corporate Spin-Off War Stories

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The Business Case Alternative: How to Support Disruptive Innovation at a Large Company

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The One Metric That Matters for Corporate Innovation

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The Corporate Innovation Trade-Off

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Smell, Don’t Tell — How to Win Buy-In for Corporate Innovation

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12 Types of Prototypes to Test Your Idea

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How to Prioritise Corporate Innovation Initiatives

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6 Prototypes in 3 Hours with 10 People from a Global FMCG

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What C-Suiters and Corporate Innovation Teams Can Learn from Jeff Immelt’s Ousting at General Electric

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Top 10 Corporate Innovation Blogs

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5 Ways Investment Can Kill Innovation

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The Difference Between Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile

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10 Lessons Learned on Innovation in Government from My Conversation with City West Water’s Sean Hanrahan

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How to Evaluate Startups for Corporate Partnerships

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The Curious Case of Cargo Cults and Corporate Innovation

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Time to Kill Corporate Innovation Theatre and Get Serious

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How Covid Destroyed My Identity, Left Me Pushing 40 and Staring into the Abyss

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Nanny State: Australia’s Draconian Lockdown Laws

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How to Have Masturbation-Free Meetings...Seriously.

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Why Disney and Generalists are Thriving in a Pandemic World

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What If COVID-19 Happened in 1990 — Before the Internet?

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What Daniel Andrews Gets Wrong About Science

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How to Build Trust with Remote Teams

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Music Festivals Go Online

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The Dictator’s Guide: Managing Remote Teams During COVID-19

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13 Tips to Crush Working From Home During COVID-19

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Remote Working and COVID-19: The Revolution We’ve All Been Waiting For?

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AI and the Coming Productivity Paradox

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How to Improve Your Mobility and Flexibility

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How Physical Activity Improves our Focus and Cognitive Function

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What To Eat To Stay Focused For Longer

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How Fasting Elevates Your Focus

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12 Health Supplements to Boost Your Focus, Memory, and Mood

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4 Ways to Counter the Toxic Effects of Sitting All Day

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Why You Should Probably Have Just One Meta Goal in 2021

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What Happens When We Live to 120? A Look into Human Longevity Tech and its Implications on Life.

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Are You Really Happy at Work? 6 Key Factors to Consider.

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How to Have More Finishing Kicks to Increase Your Productivity

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Why the Right to Disconnect is a Bad Idea

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Stressed At Work? Try Embracing Negative Emotions.

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How Slow Breathing Helps You Focus at Work

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How Being Social Helps You Focus at Work

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Sleep: Mother Nature’s Ultimate Biohack

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What To Eat To Stay Focused For Longer

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The Science on Purpose at Work

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How Direct Sunlight Exposure Improves Your Focus, Mood, and Creativity

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How to Beat Zoom Fatigue

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4 Essential Ingredients for High Performance and Productivity

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Clubhouse: Putting the Social Back into Social Media?

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How to Have Masturbation-Free Meetings...Seriously.

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How I Made $5,000 with One Medium Article

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6 Ways to Reinvest Office Space Savings into Your People

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Why Most Team Bonding Activities are a Waste of Time — Online and Off

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How to Beat Information Overload

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Are You Always On? The Dangers of Working From Home and How to Overcome Them

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Most Zoom Calls are a Waste of Time

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Culture Lags Strategy

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Save Time with Task Bundling

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Build Actual Things With Your Actual Hands

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Eliminate Distractions and You Might Not Like What You See In The Mirror

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The Case for the 6-Hour Workday

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37 Lessons on Productivity and Work from Basecamp’s Jason Fried

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How to Be Half as Busy and Twice as Productive (and Effective!)

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Our 9 to 3 Workday Experiment

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How to Increase Productivity by 500% and Boost Innovation

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50 Common Mistakes Corporate Innovation Teams Should Avoid

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Creativity isn’t a Skill, it is a State of Mind.

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How To: Outsourcing and Virtual Assistants

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How to Make Better Decisions

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How to Have More Finishing Kicks to Increase Your Productivity

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14 Ways You’re Sabotaging Your Organisation

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Mastering the Art of Learning: An Interview with Scott H. Young

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Culture is What People Do, Not Just What Policies Say

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Over 50 Lessons from Friedrich Nietzsche on Business and Life

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10 Quick Tips for Avoiding Distractions at Work

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Culture Lags Strategy

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Why You Should Fire Most of Your Team

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Startup Lessons from Netflix Co-Founder, Marc Randolph

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Leadership: Myths and Realities

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The Case for the 6-Hour Workday

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Our 9 to 3 Workday Experiment

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The Hard Truth about Corporate Innovation

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Cynicism is a Disease — why we must fight it at all costs.

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Life is All About Key Plays

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Idealism and Unrealistic Expectations Are Holding You Back

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How to Improve Your Mobility and Flexibility

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The Passion Trap

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How Covid Destroyed My Identity, Left Me Pushing 40 and Staring into the Abyss

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Can You Be Too Independent?

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Where My Motivation Comes From

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Why the Right to Disconnect is a Bad Idea

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Stressed At Work? Try Embracing Negative Emotions.

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How Slow Breathing Helps You Focus at Work

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How Being Social Helps You Focus at Work

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How Physical Activity Improves our Focus and Cognitive Function

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Sleep: Mother Nature’s Ultimate Biohack

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What To Eat To Stay Focused For Longer

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Play To Your Strengths

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How Direct Sunlight Exposure Improves Your Focus, Mood, and Creativity

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How Fasting Elevates Your Focus

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12 Health Supplements to Boost Your Focus, Memory, and Mood

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Why Working in a Cafe Could Help or Hinder Your Productivity

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Why External Success Didn’t Buy Me Happiness —but the freedom to find it.

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How Self Awareness Can Help Us Become Productivity Rockstars

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The Number One Thing Holding Your Productivity Back…

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How Being Bored Makes You More Productive

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How to Get Over Your Fear of Speaking on Clubhouse

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5 Reasons Why Self-Help Books Don’t Work — and why you should read them

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You Don't Need F*ck You Money to Say "F*ck You"

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75 Life Lessons From the Japanese Samurai

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Don't Take Advice from Programmed-Out Adults

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How to Liberate Your Mental Real Estate

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Great Souls Undertake Useful Projects

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25 Life Lessons from Cicero on Living Well

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The Reverse Side Hustle: a Better Way to Chase Your Dreams

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5 Reasons Why Self-Help Books Don’t Work — and why you should read them

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Extreme Success with a Balanced Life — is it possible?

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How to Learn Anything Fast with Overnight Poker Champion, Maria Konnikova

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The Joy of Not Giving a F*ck

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An Attitude of Uncertainty: Social Science, Identity Politics and Our Future

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Should Your Hedge Your Bets?

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10 Times I’ve Failed Miserably Before Succeeding

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You Don’t Need to Self-Hate to Be Great

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80 Life Lessons From Richard Feynman

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What You Learn About Your Insecurities When You Wear a Face Mask — and take it off.

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Are You Wasting Your Talent? It’s Time to Stop and Reflect.

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When the Obstacle is NOT The Way

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Over 50 Lessons from Friedrich Nietzsche on Business and Life

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Why Mentors Fail (and What To Do about It)

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Use Surrogate Goals To Maintain Your Team’s Motivation

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Save Your Energy for the Playoffs

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Philosophy Stole My Ambition

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Save Time with Task Bundling

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AFL Legend, Paul Roos on Leadership, Culture Change and Performance

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When You Peak Early, You Lose

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Why You (Probably) Shouldn’t Trust Your Intuition

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12 Lessons from Ryan Serhant — From Broke to Bravo

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How To Get a Non-Fiction Book Deal

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What I Learned About Life from Trying Standup Comedy

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Unmasking My Shadow

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How to Be Half as Busy and Twice as Productive (and Effective!)

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12 Life Lessons from Four Decades in Music Journalism with Mick Wall

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It Will Never Be ‘The Right Time’

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Delight People with the Unexpected

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9 Ways to Change Your Company Culture through Self Awareness

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Kill Your Ego

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Are You Really Happy at Work? 6 Key Factors to Consider.

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Entrepreneurs: Stop Drinking Somebody Else's Kool-Aid and Be Kinder to Yourselves.

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Work Won’t Validate You — But it Can Liberate You.

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Why External Success Didn’t Buy Me Happiness —but the freedom to find it.

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Freedom From The Mind

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Life Lessons from The Prophet

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Why You Should Probably Have Just One Meta Goal in 2021

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75 Life Lessons From the Japanese Samurai

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Don't Take Advice from Programmed-Out Adults

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Great Souls Undertake Useful Projects

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25 Life Lessons from Cicero on Living Well

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What We Can Learn from Eddie Van Halen's Greatness

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Extreme Success with a Balanced Life — is it possible?

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Should Your Hedge Your Bets?

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What I Learned From Interviewing My Mom

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Contact Tracing: Emergency Measure or Permanent Surveillance?

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Think Long-Term to Subsequent-Order Benefits

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Which Craft Should I Hone?

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What Happened When an Introvert Socialised for 21 Days in a Row

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54 Lessons for Entrepreneurs from Ryan Holiday’s New Book Conspiracy, on Peter Thiel’s Takedown of Gawker Media

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Unmasking My Shadow

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It Will Never Be ‘The Right Time’

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Delight People with the Unexpected

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If Geeks Are the New Cool, Will We Lose Fewer of Them?

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The 4 Ps of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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10 Life Lessons from Georges St Pierre on Building Confidence and Overcoming Adversity to Become the Best You Can Be

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Entrepreneurs: Stop Drinking Somebody Else's Kool-Aid and Be Kinder to Yourselves.

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When I Grow Up: Reflections on Turning 35

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Exposed: How I Was Discriminated Against By a Big 4 Firm for Being Male

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The Downsides of Diversity Quotas

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Burn the Books: Jordan Peterson, Penguin and the Hitler Youth

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Offside: My Life on Australia’s Politically Tribal Football Terraces

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Why Equality of Outcome is a Bad Idea

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History Repeats: Political Censorship, Twitter and Joe Biden

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Why Fox Eyes and Cultural Appropriation Should Be Celebrated

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Coinbase’s Unpopular But Diligent Stand Against Social Justice

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Spotify’s Censorship Moment: Joe Rogan, Podcasts and Politics

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Exit Stage Left: How Rock ‘n Roll Got Woke

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How Diversity Programs Backfire

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Why Fake News Prospers — and how to deal with it.

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What ‘Cuties’ and #CancelNetflix Say About Society

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The Social Dilemma Falls Short

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What if Steve Nash was Black?

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What Daniel Andrews Gets Wrong About Science

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An Attitude of Uncertainty: Social Science, Identity Politics and Our Future

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How the Internet Expanded Our Music Taste But Hardened Our Political Beliefs

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Book Summary: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

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What Sociobiologists and the Intellectual Dark Web Have in Common

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Can You Be Too Independent?

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What is the Optimal Home Office Temperature?

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Why Corporate Wellness Programs are a Waste of Time and Money

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If You’re In, Be All-In

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Why the Right to Disconnect is a Bad Idea

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Stressed At Work? Try Embracing Negative Emotions.

READ

How Slow Breathing Helps You Focus at Work

READ

How Physical Activity Improves our Focus and Cognitive Function

READ

The Importance of Values Alignment to Performance at Work

READ

Sleep: Mother Nature’s Ultimate Biohack

READ

Play To Your Strengths

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Follow Your Passion — but only if it’s the right type

READ

The Real Impact of Incentives on Performance at Work

READ

The Science on Purpose at Work

READ

How Direct Sunlight Exposure Improves Your Focus, Mood, and Creativity

READ

How to Stay Focused in an Open-Plan Office

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How to Beat Zoom Fatigue

READ

Why Working in a Cafe Could Help or Hinder Your Productivity

READ

How Self Awareness Can Help Us Become Productivity Rockstars

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How Being Bored Makes You More Productive

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Offside: My Life on Australia’s Politically Tribal Football Terraces

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How to Liberate Your Mental Real Estate

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Employers: Beware of the Good Employee Reference

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How to Learn Anything Fast with Overnight Poker Champion, Maria Konnikova

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The Joy of Not Giving a F*ck

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An Attitude of Uncertainty: Social Science, Identity Politics and Our Future

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How Richard Feynman Famously Rejected a Lucrative Job Offer

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Should You Accept or Regulate Your Emotions?

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Philosophy Stole My Ambition

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What I Learned About Life from Trying Standup Comedy

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How I Escaped from the Corporate World

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Newsletter: October 9 — Life Lessons from the Cockpit of QF32 🛫Airbnb’s Chip Conley 🏠 CC’s Legal Academy ⚖and…a Brain Quiz! 🧠

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If Geeks Are the New Cool, Will We Lose Fewer of Them?

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The 4 Ps of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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36 Cognitive Biases that Inhibit Innovation

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How to Make Better Decisions

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The End of Deep Leisure

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10 Rules for Maintaining Energy & Enthusiasm

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22 Ways to Get Buy-In for Innovation at Your Organisation

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Increase Your Risk Tolerance by Playing Within Your Bankroll

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Do You Have a Content Problem or Distribution Problem?

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How to Sell to Large Companies

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Seven HUGE Lessons on B2B Sales from Pitch Anything’s Oren Klaff

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Why Fox Eyes and Cultural Appropriation Should Be Celebrated

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Coinbase’s Unpopular But Diligent Stand Against Social Justice

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Why Fake News Prospers — and how to deal with it.

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What ‘Cuties’ and #CancelNetflix Say About Society

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What Might We Do in the Future?

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What Sociobiologists and the Intellectual Dark Web Have in Common

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Freedom From The Mind

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Raising Venture Capital in 2024 with Julie Krieger from Pari Passu Ventures

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This Cold Email Made Me $300,000

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Why Impact Venture Funds Under-Perform

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Does the Four-Day Workweek Just Expose Inefficient Workplaces?

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Follow Your Passion — but only if it’s the right type

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The Real Impact of Incentives on Performance at Work

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12 Health Supplements to Boost Your Focus, Memory, and Mood

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How to Stay Focused in an Open-Plan Office

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Why Working in a Cafe Could Help or Hinder Your Productivity

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Why I Stopped Using Clubhouse

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Great Souls Undertake Useful Projects

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Do You Have a Content Problem or Distribution Problem?

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10 Laws of Nature Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know

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How to Differentiate Your Business in a Saturated Market

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The Reverse Side Hustle: a Better Way to Chase Your Dreams

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Why Your Company Probably Runs Like C.RA.P.

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How a Culture of Experimentation Helped Us Survive COVID-19

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How To Reach Your Goals Faster with Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion

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5 Ways to Turn Customers into Fans

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10X Your Reach with Secondary Markets

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Why High Trust Companies Win — and How to Cultivate Trust

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Most Zoom Calls are a Waste of Time

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23 Steps to Surviving COVID-19 for Startups and Small Business

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The Optimism Bias — Don’t Let it Kill You

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13 Tips to Crush Working From Home During COVID-19

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Culture is What People Do, Not Just What Policies Say

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Cold Calling is NOT Dead — 5 Reasons to Pick Up The Phone

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