Mental Model: Direction Is Yours
If you don’t choose a direction for yourself, someone else will pick it for you. Someone else will also tell you what is right and… Read More »Mental Model: Direction Is Yours
If you don’t choose a direction for yourself, someone else will pick it for you. Someone else will also tell you what is right and… Read More »Mental Model: Direction Is Yours
To wander is to live freely, in awe and gratitude of the moment. To dawdle is to spread yourself thin and miss out on what… Read More »Mental Model: Wander, But Don’t Dawdle
Stop being a perfectionist. Just put in the work, and put yourself out there. Get feedback and evaluate yourself respectfully, truthfully, and briefly. Then, get… Read More »Mental Model: Do a shitty job
Asking questions in the right order improves problem solving. Do we know what we want? How do we want to do it? What works for… Read More »Direction, Strategy, Tactics, and Execution
When playing a trading card game, how many cards are you able to take per turn from your deck? How many different decks do you… Read More »Trading cards and Deck building: A mental model for opportunities and activities
There were only a few hours left until the culminating tech presentation my team and I were preparing for. I find myself grinding out the… Read More »Being human, wise, clever, and hardworking
I think that story telling is an excellent way to introduce mathematical concepts applied in real life scenarios. I think that it is an effective… Read More »Numeracy and Scale
A few months back, I wrote about one of the mental models I use called The Mountain. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly… Read More »Climbing Celeste
Achieving greatness, like reaching the top of a mountain, is a great undertaking that requires discipline and practice on a solid foundation of safety and… Read More »Mental Models: The Mountain
This concept is one of the general mental models that communicate complexity. It is primarily visualized as stairs as each step conveys a different level.… Read More »The Stairs