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What’s your relationship investment strategy? Many of us have a financial investment strategy: — Perhaps you are living paycheck to paycheck, using credit cards to cover gaps, with the belief that your next job/raise will close the gap. — Perhaps you have taken out debt in the form of a mortgage or business loan to…

#AI will level the playing field by making the conventional wisdom available to everybody. I’ve been mostly ignoring this round of ChatGPT-led AI hype, in part because the few times I’ve asked a question, I didn’t get back anything useful or insightful. But I’ve had a couple conversations recently that helped me understand how these…

Leaders don’t wait for permission. Waiting until somebody gives you permission or a “clear swim lane” is what followers do. Leadership means wading into a messy situation and creating clarity for others, identifying a direction and doing the work to align others to that direction. When you see something that needs doing, motivate and influence…

Personality typing systems are maps to the complex differences among humanity. While such systems as Myers-Briggs and the Enneagram are often dismissed as pseudo-science on par with astrology, I find them useful to remember that other people aren’t like me. We often assume that everybody sees the world exactly the same way we do, and…

Show compassion (within boundaries). One of the most common cognitive biases is the fundamental attribution error, where we attribute the failures of others to their innate characteristics (they can’t do X because they are incompetent, they are late because they are irresponsible, or they made me miserable so they are evil), but justify our own…