by Ross Dawson | Jan 23, 2023 | Insights
Through our lives we build mental models of the world that we apply in all our interactions and decisions. There are three major problems with this: No mental models are right, some are just more useful than others. This means that however good our mental models are,...
by Ross Dawson | Jan 19, 2023 | Insights
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by Ross Dawson | Nov 23, 2022 | Insights
Lex Fridman is incredibly productive. He is an AI researcher and lecturer at MIT, and host of the extremely successful Lex Fridman podcast, in which he interviews guests such as Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Mark Zuckerberg, Ye, and Vitalik Buterin, for over 3 hours on...
by Ross Dawson | Nov 6, 2022 | Insights
Author, podcaster, and investor Tim Ferriss believes in the power of avoiding distractions. Asked recently what of his advice more people should follow, his immediate response was to adopt the low-information diet that he laid out in The Four Hour Workweek. On his...
by Ross Dawson | Nov 4, 2022 | Insights
This excerpt from Chapter 4 of Thriving on Overload delves into how going into peripheral vision can broaden not only what we perceive but also our thinking. There is a reason that houses with expansive views, from hilltops or looking out over the ocean or a lake,...
