Good Plans, Bad Plans, and Road Trips
What characterizes good plans from bad ones? And how can you make your plans better on average? In this episode we discuss how to better organize your intentions and processes to yield better plans.🎙...
15 Joulu 202319min
Negative and Positive Lollapalooza Effects
The "lollapalooza" effect (coined by Charlie Munger) occurs when multiple other effects have a compounded outcome that tends to create an extreme situation.In this episode, we discuss lollapalooza eff...
9 Joulu 202322min
Fresh Eyes - How Anchoring Bias, Bandwagon Effect, Status Quo Bias, and Uniqueness Bias Interact When Joining New Groups
When you are newly joining a team, you have a huge opportunity to do something that no one on the team has: to find your "weathervane." The pressure pushing against you to adopt the beliefs of the tea...
1 Joulu 202316min
The Dark Side of Optimism Bias
Most people believe good things will happen by default.Not to be the bearer of bad news, but there's a downside to this endless optimism. You cannot will good things to happen, and when you don't prep...
27 Marras 202314min
Backlog Psychology - Breaking Out of the Habit Trap
Your team's process for managing a backlog is probably growing stale because you are running on habit rather than procedure.Break out of procedure and remind yourself why you have a process to begin w...
9 Marras 202312min
Availability Heuristic and Substituting Hard Questions
What is it about our present situation that changes our perspective? In today's episode we talk about the availability bias and why our present reality looms so large in our decisionmaking.🎙 SponsorT...
3 Marras 202317min
Spend Your Time Intentionally Through Expectation Mapping
What do you expect of yourself? Are you spending your time in ways that align with those expectations?In this episode, I provide you a simple framework as a starting lens for getting a better idea of ...
26 Loka 202314min
What is the Real Question? How To Be An Exceptional Listener
Almost every conversation you have will start with a question.Have you stopped to listen closely? Questions are extremely meaningful and deeply human. Paying close attention to questions is a skill th...
21 Loka 20239min
