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Things designed by people without skin in the game tend to grow in complication (before their final collapse). There is absolutely no benefit for someone in such a position to propose something simple: when you are rewarded for perception, not results, you need to show sophistication. Anyone who has submitted a “scholarly” paper to a journal knows that you usually raise the odds of acceptance by making it more complicated than necessary.
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Joyce Carol Oates worked and taught. Taught and worked. She published. “I come from a part of the world where people did work rather than just talk about it,” she said. “And so if you feel that you just can’t write, or you’re too tired, or this, that, and the other, just stop thinking about it and go and work.”
Discipline Is Destiny
Ryan Holiday
Requests may sound like demands when unaccompanied by the speaker’s feelings and needs.
Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg
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