For reading between the lines with greater comprehension
“I’m sort of sad and sort of glad the holiday season’s over. It’s been fun, but there’s something slightly grungy about unstructured time. It’s like I forget who I am.” During the holidays, incentives and disincentives change. You may still be performing under pressure, but, for these few weeks, it’s for relatives, not clients or […]
PV = kT While you may not recognize it, the equation above describes a relationship between heat, pressure, and volume that you understand intuitively. It’s Boyle’s Law, one of physics’ easier bits. It’s easy in part, I suspect because it has intuitive parallels in your dealings with people, parallels that you might well encounter during […]
Months back I wrote about an important, overlooked dynamic in evolution called Redundancy and Relaxation*. When you have two ways to do something, performance pressure is relaxed, which brings about either innovation or flakiness. It’s like R&R: The boss says, “We’ve got someone to take your place for a couple of weeks, so for now, […]
A funny thing happened on the way to this week’s mind readers entry. I wrote it, my editor edited it, I read it one last time and realized I disagreed with it. It will be weeks before that baby’s ready for bed. Later this morning I needed an old quote to send to a colleague […]
Last “Mind-Reader’s” was about floodlighting, a technique for overcoming both rashness and indecisiveness on soft decisions. Floodlighting is the alternative to spotlighting the options you’re for or against. To floodlight is to illuminate all the available options at once, that is, to explore your full decision space rather than swinging your spotlight from one isolated […]
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