Archive
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New newsletter announcement – Work in Progress
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Automatically Color Coding Google Calendar
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Doing a quarterly review
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Quitting Internet
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Social Media Productivity
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Focus as a lifestyle
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What kind of leadership does your team need in order to grow?
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The read/act ratio
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Serendipity
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Don’t overcomplicate prioritization
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Allow people to change their mind
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I'm just getting started
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My personal favorites
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The best of DailyPM series
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The best of DailyPM
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Becoming less selfish
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Document your failures
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Enjoying company
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Yearly review: the final plan
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Yearly review: convert to actionable goals
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Yearly review: themed quarters
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Yearly review: areas of responsibility
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Yearly review: looking back
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Yearly review: the outline
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Have you changed?
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If you think you know your blind spots
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The Team Performance Scanner™
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Manage people that are smarter than you
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How to add value anywhere
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Spread motivation
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Switching jobs
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Use a password manager
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Assertiveness
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Problem solving skills
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Show me the money-principle
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My tech news sources
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Taking tests
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Schedule time for your yearly review
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The timing of economic choices
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Decisions
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Don’t stop
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Turning chaos into order
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Writing
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Multiplier effect
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Delegated tasks
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Thanksgiving
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Sunk cost revisited
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Imposter syndrome
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Finish what you started
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Regrouping after travel
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Living by the clock
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One step at the time
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I take it back
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Speed
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Focus on what’s not there
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Enough is enough
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Get the information you need
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Improve hiring with grades
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Your first reaction
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Being vs moving
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Public speaking: strong beginning and ending
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Public speaking: know your audience
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Public speaking: dealing with nerves
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Public speaking: tell stories
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Public speaking: master your topic
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Reduce batch size
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Unroll.me
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Don’t forget the new information
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Nonviolent Communication Process
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Queues over timelines
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Reward people for the work of others
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Socratic questioning
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5 * why
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Three biggest weaknesses?
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The perspective loss brings
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Cost of delay
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Small decisions count
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Between basic empathy and total empathy
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The best part of the day
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Clues about your pace
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Festina lente
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Concrete over abstract
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Enjoy the view
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Getting better at getting better
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The limits of possible
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Goodhart's law
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The necessity of change
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One of the scariest things on earth
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Friendship types from Aristotle
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A little motivation
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Should the rest of the world copy me?
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Survivorship bias
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Prewire your mind before sleeping
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
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Getting hired (part 2)
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Make faults seem easy to correct
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Admit it if you’re wrong
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Every man I meet is my superior in some kind of way
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Talk in terms of the other persons interest
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Remember their name
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Ford’s secret of success
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Revisit your goals
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How to prepare for an interview
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Group pomodoro
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Fast decisions are better than slow ones
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Pursuit of knowledge
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Rise above mediocrity
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Keeping an open mind
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You’re not paid for what you know
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Something executed well is never trouble
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Team building week: attention to detail
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Team building week: be honest
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Team building week: know their qualities
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Team building week: switch scenery
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Team building week: set boundaries
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Team building week: have clearly defined roles
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Team building week: create a common vision
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Goal muscles vs task muscles
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Conflict series: how to deal with insecurity?
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Conflict series: how to deal with a stonewaller?
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Conflict series: how to deal with a hard noser?
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Conflict series: how to deal with avoiders?
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Conflict series: Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
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What is good management?
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Positivity week: learn something new
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How I work with OmniFocus
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Positivity week: find out what makes you laugh
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Positivity week: positivity is a choice
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Positivity week: do kind things
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Positivity week: reevaluate your surroundings
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Positivity week: smile more
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Positivity week: gratitude
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Sharing knowledge
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Daily things
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ShuHaRi
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Failure week: conclusion
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Failure week: inspect and adapt
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Failure week: change and retry
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Failure week: shut down your brain
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Failure week: reframe thought patterns
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Failure week: stop thinking about what others think
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Failure week: acknowledge and accept
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Your primary goal
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Johari window
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DISC series: C
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DISC series: S
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DISC series: I
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DISC series: D
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We are our choices
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Paint drip people
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Become a better quitter
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7 habits week: conclusion
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7 habits week: sharpen the saw
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7 habits week: work synergetic
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7 habits week: understand before being understood
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7 habits week: win/win
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7 habits week: important things first
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7 habits week: beginning with the end in mind
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7 habits week: be proactive
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Sticking to your goals
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Why so serious?
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Goal setting theory from Locke and Latham
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Analytical, lateral and critical thinking
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Make the world a bit better
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The hard thing about setting personal goals
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Feynman technique
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The Art of Getting Your Shit Done
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Eat that frog
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Incumbents curse
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Ignore the tap on the shoulder
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Tools
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DISC
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Be effective, not efficient
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Sources for inspiration and learning
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Attitude
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Three layered approach
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Creative thinking vs logical thinking
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Effectiveness over process
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The compound effect
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Discipline
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GTD week: the struggles
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GTD week: mind sweep
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GTD week: six-level model for reviewing your own work
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Do, delegate or defer
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Beware the process-trap
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GTD week: getting to actionable
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GTD week: capture all the things
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GTD week: The goal of GTD
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Involving everyone in making plans
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Priorities
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Energy management
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Active listening
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Work ethic
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Simplicity
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Soft skills
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Strategies against stress
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Writing performance reviews
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Helpful questions for dealing with mistakes
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Team playing skills
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Celebrate more
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Making checklists
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Don’t just focus on your own effectiveness
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The micromanagement test
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How to learn from your mistakes
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The Hawthorne effect
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Strategic Thinking Week: Conclusion
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Strategic Thinking Week: Be patient
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Strategic Thinking Week: Be hypercritical
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Strategic Thinking Week: Be non-judgmental
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Strategic Thinking Week: Taking time to think
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Strategic Thinking Week: Seeking advice from others
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Strategic Thinking Week: Design for change
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Strategic Thinking Week: Clearly defined objectives
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Strategic Thinking Week: Intro
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Empathy map
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Parkinson’s law
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Public speaking means preparation
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Executive meetings
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Procrastination
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The Zeigarnik effect
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The Art of War: Estimating distance
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Deep Work Week: Conclusion
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Deep Work Week: Put more thought in your leisure time
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Deep Work Week: Let small bad things happen
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Deep Work Week: Deal with shallow work
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Deep Work Week: Lag measures, lead measures
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Deep Work Week: Resist switching to distractions
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Deep Work Week: The idea
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Deep Work Week: Introduction
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Saying no
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Your calendar is a holy place
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Listening skills
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Change one bad habit at a time
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You are the scientist of your own culture
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Guarding against unknown problems
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Small talk
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Let’s make some progress on one of your goals
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What is micromanagement?
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You are responsible for your own development
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Transactional analysis
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Novelty
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T-shaped professional
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Pareto’s principle
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Why you shouldn’t schedule brainstorm sessions
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Executive coaching
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Skillpower vs willpower
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Ready aim aim aim aim aim
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Technical debt
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Communicating about tasks and projects
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Focus is doing less, not more
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Why moving is important
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Styles of conflict resolution
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If-then planning
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Situational leadership
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Appreciative inquiry (or: any fool can criticize)
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Work simplification
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Self care
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Holding/pulling
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Just get it done
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SMART-goals
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Backlog refinement
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Don’t criticize, condemn or complain
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Tough decisions
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Sunk cost fallacy
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So good they can’t ignore you
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The 70/20/10 model
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Your day starts the night before
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Stretch goals
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Sharpen the saw
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The Eisenhower matrix
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Taking a break
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Speak truth
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Making decisions
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Who moved my cheese?
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Delivering negative feedback
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Groupthink
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Be clearer
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Preparation
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2 pizza rule
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Falling back into old habits
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Focus on your future self
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On hiring
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Any process has waste
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Integrity
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Black and white
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Small Uncontrolled Experiments
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Inbox zero
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30 day projects
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Total Control vs No Control
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Be the change you wish to see in the world
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Flow
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How to read more
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Broken windows theory
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Be a better coach
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The three laws of mastery
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Progress is progress
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Rethink email
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Dealing with change
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What I do to be less distracted
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Preparing for Q2
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Making new connections
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Define the top three most important things for today
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Are you afraid to get started?
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How OKRs can help you
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There’s always an excuse
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What would make you impossibly good?
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Working overtime
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Accountability
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Focus is a muscle
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Defusing conversations
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Be on time
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Refuse to settle
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Prepare for success
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There is only one person you can really change
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Toe stepping
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Trust but verify (part 2)
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One-on-ones
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Does this make the product better?
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Exit ITYS
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10.000 hours, deep work and a 4 hour work week combined
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Focus on the very next action
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How to answer questions
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Research does not have to be hard
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Start a sideproject
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Better ideas
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You’re controlling the spotlight
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Purple Cow
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Stop talking
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My UX shortlist
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Pomodoro Technique
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Trust but verify
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No-meeting-Tuesday
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Standups
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As a man thinketh
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On task managers
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Building multidisciplinary teams
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Manager vs maker
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The value of learning by listening
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Overcommunicate
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What Steve Jobs, Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg have in common
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The Lean Startup
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Building roadmaps: benefits and costs/efforts
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The two minute rule
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How flowcharts can help you build complex workflows
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Tackle hard problems
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Structuring your day like Benjamin Franklin
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Small things matter
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Do the work
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If you’re doing the same thing as 6 months ago, you’re not agile
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Ask for feedback
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AB testing basics
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How to make a designer fall in love with you (again)
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How to learn and grow your network
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Loading times matter
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Stop keeping things in your head
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It starts with noticing
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Design stuff: alignment and white space
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Want more focus? Something needs to go.
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Know your final 1% to be sure of your 99
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People don’t set out to fail
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Improving your methodology
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Stop defining how people should do things
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A lesson from David Cameron
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Technical stuff: deployments and feature-flags
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Just get started
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Estimating work
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Return to your routines
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Organize better meetings
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One teacher, one book and 7 habits
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Product Hunt
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It’s time for your weekly review
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Use wireframes to build better products
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It is your job to lead
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Building your roadmap
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Step back
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Hooked
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Do you have a plan of attack for 2016?
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Don’t break the chain
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Introducing DailyPM
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Care, listen, do better
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Rdio: focus and scale vs profitability
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“The courage of creation is making bad beginnings.”
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This is what makes working at Blendle super awesome
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The perfect way to waste good ideas
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Well i kind of can relate to that :/ guess real life comes 1st for us all.Just wanted to be sure it will stay online though ... none of the other tracking sites suits me...
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Hi Rick,I found your name through Meetup on the Krypton course community group (Seth Godin's?) I'm reaching out to you because I'd be really interested on making it happen, and you are one of the two members listed on that group. I'm proposing a very quick meeting this coming Saturday, somewhere in Amsterdam, just to get to know each other and talk about our possibilities. So, would you like to team up and make it happen? =) I'm also reaching out to Sasha the other member on the group
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Hi. How often do you update Showdates database? I'm interested by some polish new show (Wataha), and it's in TheTVDB (id=286152), but i can't find them on your site. Great job btw :)
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Beste Rick, we willen je graag introduceren aan onze API mbt showdates. Indien je enige interesse hebt om even erover te praten laat het ons weten. mvg, Jan jan[.]peeters[at]tvmaze[.]com
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I'm interested in your 30 days of onboarding experiment! Any reason you didn't cover Tumblr?
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Hello there Rick! Just want to know if you "gave up" on showdates and it will be online just the way it is =)
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Don’t be afraid to aim for unrealistic goals
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started
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41%
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It’s better to be a pirate.
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Architects, keep it simple
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Look at me, I'm talking to you
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The Productivity Multiplier
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WIRED on the Apple Watch
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Start before you feel ready
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The Remedy
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Decisions, Not Options
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Lessons learned from scaling a product team - Inside Intercom
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Onboarding #30: Blendle
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Onboarding #29: Showdates.me
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How Apple Makes the Watch
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Onboarding #28: Dayafterday
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Onboarding #27: HipChat
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Onboarding #26: Slack
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Onboarding #25: Meetup.com
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Onboarding #24: Meerkat for iOS
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Onboarding #23: Outlook.com
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Onboarding #22: The New York Times
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Onboarding #21: Vine (iOS)
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Onboarding #20: Path for iOS
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Onboarding #19: IFTTT Do Button iOS App
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Onboarding #18: Airbnb iOS
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Onboarding #17: IFTTT
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Onboarding #16: ReadingPack
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Onboarding #15: Instapaper
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Onboarding #14: Staply
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Notes on The Practice of Management by Peter Drucker
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Onboarding #13: Foursquare
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Onboarding #12: Facebook
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Onboarding #11: Vimeo
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Onboarding #10: Flipboard
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Onboarding #9: Prismatic
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Onboarding #8: Goodreads
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Onboarding #7: Pocket
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Onboarding #6: GitHub
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Onboarding #5: Pinterest
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Onboarding #4: Twitter
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Onboarding #3: Instagram
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Onboarding #2: Dropbox
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Onboarding #1: Botify.com
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BHAG goals review and new 30 day project
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How I do one-on-ones
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Just one more
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Quick productivity tip: Captio for iPhone
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My Big Hairy Audacious Goals for 2015
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What is integrity?
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Take advantage of your freedom
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So you're a Product Manager, now what?
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None of it under my control
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What makes a great leader?
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It's about time to make plans for next year
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Sticking to things you know and trust is easy.
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30 days without meat update
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The Micro-Managing Antidote
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The Good Life Project with Simon Sinek
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New 30 day project: skipping the meat
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How to be a better co-worker
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Debugging iOS navigator.standalone applications
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A month has passed.
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Saturday's Week 25
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Saturday's Week 22
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Find Yourself an Accountability Partner
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Morning Rituals— 1/10/1000
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Fixing iOS 7 Safari crashes in Blendle
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My current podcast list
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What I learned from launching Blendle (so far)
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Date Night Material
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Observations: Working at a Startup
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Monthly Review: March
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The (Almost) Monthly Review
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Saturday's Week 6
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Saturday's Week 3
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Saturday's Week 2 (on Tuesday)
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Formulating Goals for 2014
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Saturday's Week 1
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Don't Be Afraid to Ask For Help
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Saturday's Week 52
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Saturday's Week 51
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Saturday's Week 50
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The judicious selection of what to learn next
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Saturday's Week 49
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Formulating a Plan of Attack for 2014
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Dag Snor!
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Saturday's Week 48
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How I Learned To-Do Lists Are Overrated
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The Storyline Productivity Schedule
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Zonder snor kan ik het gewoon niet.
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Saturday's Week 47
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I'm Available For Work Starting January 1st
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Success = The Company You Keep
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18 Dagen Verder
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Saturday's Week 46
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Saturday's Week 45
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Saturday's Week 44
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Movember 2013
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Getting Ready for 2014
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Saturday's Week 43
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The Decision to Become a Morning Person
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Fighting FOMO: 4 Questions That Will Crush the Fear of Missing Out
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The Two Minute Rule
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Thinking In 5 Year Blocks
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Saturday's Week 42
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How To Enable Core Data Logging
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Saturday's Week 41
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Re-introducing Pocket Money
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Saturday's Week 40
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How to Be a Gentleman Scholar: Classroom Etiquette for the College Man
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Books That Changed My Life
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Why I Stopped Watching Television
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5 Reasons to Spend Some Days in Silence
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The Heretic - In It For The Long Haul
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IKEA packaging made my day
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The 5 AM Miracle
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Amsterdam
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How Happy Are You These Days?
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Great Coders Are Todays Rockstars
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This Is Our Time
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no title
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4 Tips To Read More
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This Video Inspired Me To Start With 30 Day Projects
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time given us.
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So, How's It Going?
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New 30 day project: no e-mail until 11:30
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Why I Quit Facebook
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Do you want to be more charismatic? Here's how.
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Update: 30 days without Facebook and Twitter
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30 days without Facebook and Twitter
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A month has passed
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Changing one nasty habit (at a time)