Tips you may have discovered to increase your focus and productivity, before learning about the Life Hack Fallacy: Set a timer before performing your task. Work for 20 minutes and then give yourself a reward, like spending a few minutes [*cough* half an hour *cough cough*] on social media. Hide your phone in a lock-box…
Month: September 2020
A typical freight car attached to a locomotive weighs 130 tons when fully loaded. Such a locomotive may also be pulling well over 100 cars, totaling 13,000 tons of pull weight (not counting the weight of the locomotive itself). Now, moving one ton along the track requires about eight pounds of forward force. That means…
How do we show people we care about them? Is it because we remembered to text them on their birthday? Or because we bought them an expensive Christmas present? Maybe we’re imagining something more ‘Hallmark’, that we’re their family and, “they just know, you know?” Are these really enough to constitute the foundation for…
Let’s imagine a promotion parable… An employee is identified as faster and smarter than most of their peers. Management decides to promote them to team leader; their role evolves. Because this employee already knows how this team functions, they also excel in this role, producing results and success amidst the environmental stresses to which they…