From Surfing to Strategy

Our brains are amazing

https://medium.com/the-human-element/from-surfing-to-strategy-2b697500c411

Who’s Listening?

Three questions for improving conversations.

https://medium.com/the-human-element/im-listening-7c70da72a36a

Improving Understanding

An approach to the challenges of understanding our beliefs and the beliefs of others.

https://medium.com/the-human-element/improving-understanding-e21c56e1eaae

Great American Diet Experiment

A deep look at the 2015 dietary guidelines and how the guidelines shape health.

https://medium.com/the-human-element/the-great-american-diet-experiment-cd29f746792

The “Now” page is a concept I learned from Derek Sivers.

The “Now” page is an easy way to share what I’m up to and it’s a great tool for setting and maintaining priorities.

Here’s the link to Derek’s page on the Now Page Movement:

https://sivers.org/nowff

Here’s a link to my now page:

Now

Here’s a summary of my ‘Now’ page:

Focus:

▪Understanding how people think, how our bodies work and how we relate to each other.

Current Efforts: 

▪Tribes: Technology & Conflict

▪Brains & Tribes: Sharing Information & Accelerated Learning

▪Brains & Tribes: A Strategy for Living

The Concept:

• Neurons link information together.
• Information is stored in layers. Different layers have different levels of detail.
• Labels are used as shorthand for layers of details on links between information.

Knowledge, Wisdom and Skill

• Knowledge is links between information.
• Wisdom is an understanding of context specific value.
• Skill is the ability to link information and action to produce specific outcomes.

References / Sparks

• Culture Code – Dave Cooper & AARs
• Creativity Inc. – Brain Trust
• Never Split The Difference

Brains

Bodies

Tribes

Excited About

The Culture Code (30 Jan 2018) by Dan Coyle

Recommended

Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull

The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis

Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal

The Talent Code by Dan Coyle

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

Tsundoku

Top 3 Resources:

Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

Team of Teams by Gen(ret) McChrystal

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

The report:

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/129/25_suppl_2/S76.full

The recommendations for fat:

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The claim:

The Evidence Cited:

ES 11:

ES 12:

The focus of the evidence review:

Study design for clinical trials and meta-analysis of clinical trials (analysis of combined results from multiple trials).

The assumption:

Reducing LDL-C will reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

What isn’t discussed in the review:

Risk associated with the medical intervention. Specifically, risk from consumption of excess linoleic acid.

In the 1st Enlightenment, the “age of reason”, opened up the exploration of “why?”. The idea of the 1st Enlightenment was that through study you could figure out how things work and make them better.

In the 2nd Enlightenment we’re finding out our brains aren’t as rational or reasoned as we thought they were. We’re coming to the realization that emotions play a much bigger role in shaping our perception, understanding and decisions.

Questions

References

The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis

Win Bigly by Scott Adams

• What should we teach our kids?
• What’s the relationship between parents and kids?
• What should we pass down?
• What’s the importance of family?
• What’s the role of families over generations?

Are we rational?

Win Bigly by Scott Adams

Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis

Behave by Robert Sapolsky