Join 📚 Leerentveld Readwise Highlights

A batch of the best highlights from what Niels's read, .

To find out what 20% of your task you should start , ask yourself “what 20% of my effort will give me 80% of the progress towards achieving my outcome?”

Stop Procrastination

Benjamin Wilson

“The data is there to help you have a *conversation* - see discrepancies and surprises, help validate assumptions, debate interpretations. You must never lose sight of the qualitative vision and user empathy - the data is there to augment it, not replace it. That's why you use data to inform your decisions, not drive them.” - comment from [Assaph Mehr](https://www.linkedin.com/in/assaph/) on a post I did on this topic.

Data-Informed, NOT Data-Driven

Ant Murphy

people don’t pay attention to boring things (Brain Rule #4). You’ve got seconds to grab someone’s attention and only 10 minutes to keep it. At 9 minutes and 59 seconds, something must be done to regain attention and restart the clock—something emotional and relevant.

Brain Rules

John Medina

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