July 1 2018
Content
1. Success advice (Link)
Surround yourself with people who welcome debate, dissent, and disagreement.
There is great honor in ruthless intellectual battle.
How to find these people?
Document your ideas. Put them in front of audiences. You won’t need to find these people, they’ll find you.
Yep.
Especially if you/they can disagree agreeably.
My favorite people are those who can disagree — and teach me something — without being disagreeable.
2. On success (Link)
Success at work depends more on social skills today than it did in the past. There’s a premium on coordination, negotiation, persuasion, and social perceptiveness:
We’ll have some guides to learning things like negotiation and persuasion, soon.
3. Hardship reveals skill
4. On when to focus on reducing weaknesses or improving strengths
Matches the advice I agree with.
5. Motivation
