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Work No Longer Has Clear Boundaries
A major factor in the mounting stress level is that the actual nature of our jobs has changed much more dramatically and rapidly than have our training for and our ability to deal with work. In just the last half of the twentieth century, what constituted “work” in the industrialized world was transformed from assembly line, make-it-and-move-it kinds of activity to what the late Peter Drucker so aptly termed “knowledge” work.
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Having the core of circus education be multidisciplinary is effectively increasing the surface area to promote more creative reactions, increasing the pace of innovation. When you have a narrow knowledge set to draw on, it's harder to come up with new ideas. Exposure to different disciplines sets up circus performers to be creative in the execution of their art. Increasing our own knowledge surface area is a solution when lack of creativity or fresh ideas is a problem.
The Great Mental Models Volume 3
Rhiannon Beaubien and Rosie Leizrowice
By investing when the price is favorable to the intrinsic value, it effectively limits the downside risk, building in a level of protection into the investment. Managing the downside risk is one of the great fundamental practices of the world’s most famous investors. It’s similar to the old adage in real estate, “You make money when you buy, not when you sell.” That framework is the anchor for real estate investors the world over.
Buy Then Build
Walker Deibel
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