1) "10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned" by Ben Casnocha
Source: http://casnocha.com/reid-hoffman-lessons
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16 Lessons Learned
i) People are complicated and flawed. Root for their better angels.
ii) The best way to get a busy person’s attention: Help them.
iii) Keep it simple and move fast when conceiving strategies and making decisions.
iv) Every weakness has a corresponding strength.
v) The values that actually shape a culture have both upside and downside.
vi) Understand someone’s “alpha” tendencies and how that drives them.
vii) Self-deception watch: even those who say they don’t need or want flattery, sometimes still need it.
viii) Be clear on your specific level of engagement on a project.
ix) Sketch three possible outcomes for a project: the likely upside, likely ‘regular’, and likely downside scenarios.
x) A key to making good partnerships great: Identify and emphasize any misaligned incentives.
xi) Reason is the steering wheel. Emotion is the gas pedal.
xii) Trade up on trust even if it means you trade down on competency.
xiii)Tell the truth. Don’t reflexively kiss ass to powerful people.
xiv)Respect the shadow power.
xv) Make people genuine partners and they’ll work harder.
xvi) Final: The people around you change you in myriad unconscious ways.
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2) "How Didi And Ride-Sharing Are Different in Brazil: My Visit to 99 HQ. (Pt 2 of 3)" by Jeffrey Towson 陶迅
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-didi-ride-sharing-different-brazil-my-visit-99-hq-towson-%E9%99%B6%E8%BF%85-1e/
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Difference with China #2: How much to localize is an important question for ride-sharing globally
Uber, unfortunately, has become the gold standard for how not to go global as a ride-sharing company. They rolled out their services around the world in a mostly standardized fashion, with the tech and management significantly centralized to San Francisco. That made sense as data technology and software scale and expand geographically very easily. And combining this with local data is a powerful approach. It has really worked for Facebook and Google globally.
But Uber got beat virtually everywhere by local ride-sharing companies. Ola won in India, Grab in SE Asia, Didi in China. And so on. It turns out ride-sharing can be a pretty local business. Plus having local. owner-managers can be a real strength.
Didi, by and large, avoided this approach by investing (along with Softbank) in local champions around the world. And since 2016, Uber has retreated back to the USA while the Didi Alliance has become dominant in much of the world.
Now, however, Didi is going international itself. Especially in Brazil, Mexico, Australia and Japan. And ironically, it is now going head-to-head with Uber in two of their largest remaining international markets: Brazil and Mexico.
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3) “The extraordinary reading habits of Defense Secretary James Mattis” by Amanda Macias
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/13/defense-secretary-james-mattis-extraordinary-reading-habits.html
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[Quote] Mattis, a revered Marine with a military career spanning four decades, credits his leadership success to his voracious reading habits.
"Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed before. It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead," Mattis wrote in a 2003 email to military historian Jill Russell.
Hailed for his battlefield prowess and kinship with rank-and-file service members, Mattis explained that the best way to hone war-fighting skills is to leverage lessons learned from history.
"A real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun," Mattis wrote. "We have been fighting on this planet for 5000 years and we should take advantage of their experience. Winging it and filling body bags as we sort out what works reminds us of the moral dictates and the cost of in competence in our profession."
In October 2016, a Marine asked Mattis how he continues to develop as a leader. Mattis once again pointed to reading.
"You stay teachable most by reading books, by reading what other people went through," Mattis said. "I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground or I was engaged in a fight somewhere and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading."
He added: "I knew what I was going to do because I'd seen other similar situations in the reading. I knew how they'd been dealt with successfully or unsuccessfully." [/Quote]
4) "Your Success Can Be Predictable, Even Inevitable" by Rodger Dean Duncan
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rodgerdeanduncan/2018/10/11/your-success-can-be-predictable-even-inevitable/
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A) Reduce the choices that will wastefully consume your willpower
We all have a finite amount of mental energy available for exercising self-control. Some of us have less, some have more. But we all eventually run out of willpower steam. That’s why the more choices you need to make during the day, the harder each one is on your brain and the more you start to look for shortcuts. Then you get impulsive. Then you get reckless. Then you make decisions you know you should not make. But it's as if you just can’t seem to help yourself.
Say you want to drink more water and less soda. Easy: Keep three water bottles on your desk at all times. Then you won't need to go to the refrigerator and make a choice.
Or say you struggle to keep from constantly checking your email. Easy: Turn off all your alerts. Or take your mail program off your desktop and keep it on a laptop across the room. The harder it is to check, the less often you’ll have to decide not to check.
Choices are the enemy of willpower. So are ease and convenience. Think of decisions that require willpower, and then take willpower out of the equation completely.
B) Create a routine and stick to it to accumulate your accomplishment gradually
Two, when you create a routine, stick to that routine, and grind it out day after day after day. You can put together huge numbers. And as I said before, every day you get to feel good about yourself, because you accomplished what you set out to accomplish that day.
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5) "The millionaire host of ‘The Price is Right’ says a smart person does the same thing for their career every day — so other people don’t" by Myelle Lansat
Source: https://www.businessinsider.my/the-price-is-right-host-drew-carey-career-advice-2018-10/
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[Quote] Carey said if you don’t set goals for yourself regularly, you can be vulnerable to doing things that other people want you to do.“I always say that that kind of thing is important to make your own goals whether its a vision board or not because otherwise someone will make your goals for you,” Carey said.
“If you don’t have any goals, you walk down the street and it’s like ‘buy this burger, get this car, watch this movie, spend your time doing this,’ and they try to draw you into spending your minutes that you only have a precious few, just like everyone else,” Carey said.
If you don’t set personal goals every day – whether you put all of them on your vision board or not – you can fall victim to advertisements or pressure from peers, Carey said.[/Quote]
6) "Working with People Who Aren’t Self-Aware" by Tasha Eurich
Source: https://hbr.org/2018/10/working-with-people-who-arent-self-aware
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Ask yourself these 3 questions before you stepping in to help them:
i) Am I the right messenger?
ii) Am I willing to accept the worst-case scenario?
iii) What to do if they don’t change?
Besides, we can minimize their impact by:
i) Mindfully reframe their behavior
ii) Find their humanity
iii) Play the long game
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7) "Peter Thiel: What the Future Looks Like" - Interview with James Altucher
Source: https://jamesaltucher.com/2014/09/peter-thiel-what-the-future-looks-like/
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Roles should be differentiated to get maximal cooperation
Peter Thiel: The formula for getting people to fight each other for nothing is to tell two people to do the exact the same thing. You get maximal cooperation when people's roles are defined in very differentiated way so that people don't see their success as contingent on someone else's failure. You will be succeeded if you do your job, someone else will be succeeded if they do their job and their job is different from your job so you can both be succeeded - and it is not negatively correlated from one person to the other.
Bubble happens when people substitute other people's thinking as their own
It is a phenomena when people substitute other people's thinking as their own, that's when I think you get a dangerous bubble.
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8) Rapid Software Testing V3.2.2 by James Bach and Michael Bolton
Source: http://www.scrummaster.dk/lib/AgileLeanLibrary/Topics/SoftwareTesting/RapidSoftwareTesting3.2.2.pdf
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Testers must have freedom, wisdom and responsibility:-
i) Freedom: The ability to do things that might hurt people (including yourself).
ii) Wisdom: Knowing how not to hurt people (including yourself).
iii) Responsibility: Choosing not hurt people (including yourself).
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9) Rapid Software Testing V3.3.7 by James Bach and Michael Bolton
Source: http://www.satisfice.com/rst.pdf
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The Premises of Rapid Testing
1. Software projects and products are relationships between people, who are creatures both of emotion and rational thought.
2. Each project occurs under conditions of uncertainty and time pressure.
3. Despite our best hopes and intentions, some degree of inexperience, carelessness, and incompetence is normal.
4. A test is an activity; it is performance, not artifacts.
5. Testing’s purpose is to discover the status of the product and any threats to its value, so that our clients can make informed decisions about it.
6. We commit to performing credible, cost-effective testing, and we will inform our clients of anything that threatens that commitment.
7. We will not knowingly or negligently mislead our clients and colleagues.
8. Testers accept responsibility for the quality of their work, although they cannot control the quality of the product.
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10) "73 Mind-Blowing Implications of Driverless Cars and Trucks" by Geoff Nesnow
Source: https://medium.com/@DonotInnovate/73-mind-blowing-implications-of-a-driverless-future-58d23d1f338d
11) "11 Tweaks To Your Morning Routine Will Make Your Entire Day More Productive" by Travis Bradberry
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2015/12/15/11-tweaks-to-your-morning-routine-will-make-your-entire-day-more-productive/#1a54c78e465f
12) "If You’re Too Busy For These 5 Things, Your Life Is More Off-Course Than You Think" by Benjamin P. Hardy
Source: http://inc-asean.com/the-inc-life/youre-busy-5-things-life-off-course-think/
13) A Friendly Introduction to Machine Learning
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGxLWOIZy4
14) HBR Ascend Aticles
https://hbrascend.org/topics/7-things-to-say-when-a-conversation-turns-negative/
https://hbrascend.org/topics/difficult-conversations-9-common-mistakes/
https://hbrascend.org/topics/7-intelligent-comebacks-for-when-conversations-turn-negative/
https://hbrascend.org/topics/boost-your-emotional-intelligence-with-these-3-questions/
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