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I can divide most online content into three categories:

• Baby food. They take a theme and present it in a simplistic way. No depth. You think you've understood it, but when you reconsider, you realize you haven't learned anything new.

• Wannabe academics. They present the theme in the most complicated way possible, trying to appear sophisticated. They add unnecessary layers of fat. When you read it, it seems enlightening; but when you reconsider, you realize you can't repeat it.

• No-content content. Many words, zero value.

I appreciate the few authors who help us understand things without making them too simple. Those who search for the fundamental insights and share them with the masses.

In this issue as well, I present some of them to you. This time they try to help us write simple but effective documents, explain why without enough social interactions we become stupid, and help us understand AI without using professional jargon.

Enjoy,

Avy

🗝️ The secret stash

Selected resources to help us make sense of how we think, work and manage.

Make better documents
“I can't tell you how many times I've seen an important document, like a cover letter for a job, or a pitch for fundraising, that essentially starts with a lengthy, off-putting, deeply insular recitation of a list of things that are basically a litany of the author's insecurities. Don't do this!”

Rules of the Money Game
“There are only a handful of financial rules, ideas, and observations that really move the needle -- and explain the majority of what you need to know to do better with your money.”

The most underrated skill in management
Spoiler: it’s being able to define properly the problem at hand.
“Error one: "we already know what the problem is." The most common mistake is skipping problem formulation altogether. Sometimes people assume that because they ‘agree’ on the problem, they should just get busy trying to fix it.”

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🥃 Unrelated

Unorthodox insights and stories. Opportunities to think different.

The loneliness pandemic is not only making us depressed; it’s also making us dumb and dangerous.
“As social networks shrink, anxiety and polarization rise, and we become soft targets for bad actors and self-inflicted harms. Scams targeting lonely people are the go-to tactic for con artists.”

The student is not at the center anymore: the comeback of super strict schools.
“When a digital bell beeped (traditional clocks are “not precise enough,” the principal said) the students walked quickly and silently to the cafeteria in a single line. There they yelled a poem — “Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley — in unison, then ate for 13 minutes as they discussed that day’s mandatory lunch topic: how to survive a superintelligent killer snail.”

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