Researchers studied the impact of meetings on our brains. This is fascinating…

In a controlled experiment, this paper finds that recognition of a few top performers at a job increases the performance of the entire team Not because the recognized workers do more, but because the other workers adopt the higher standard & conform to it pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.128…

1. There is no shame in hiring help. Taking care of home / kids (and doing it well) is a FT job. 2. The way the article positions it, it’s the wife’s dirty little secret. When it is a family decision to hire help. fortune.com/2022/12/07/the…

“You don’t have to attend every argument you’re invited to” –Charlie Munger

Google Calendar, but it shows the cost of the meeting

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The best performers are not consistently great but they're great at being consistent. They show up day in, day out and put in the work. They make progress by applying the right amount of stress followed by the right amount of rest. They repeat this pattern over and over again.

Not to mention the fact that very few of these teams are at the stage to have a true CFO/VP Finance

Uff. This is a gut punch. “To be honest, we barely had to adjust our hospital schedule [because gun violence is so common]. Politicians need to Do Something, because doing nothing hasn’t worked.” — Dr. Jason Smith, Chief Medical Officer at U of Louisville

the older i get, the more i'm convinced the single most important trait that matters in your friends, coworkers, life partner, and kids - is high agency.

I used Summer Health this morning for my kids’ pink eye and I reached a pediatric nurse in 2 minutes via SMS. I’ve heard a lot of physicians say that in-person is ideal because the importance of the physical exam, the subtleties etc. My take: We too often rank virtual care

Private health insurance on average pays hospitals 2.5 times what Medicare does for the same services, with some states seeing relative prices of more than 3 times greater, according to a new report. trib.al/bBMcgwC

My dad had to have an emergency procedure yesterday. He was by himself in LA. He was scared and none of us knew what the right call was (do the procedure or wait and explore less invasive solutions?). Then, the doctor got on a zoom call with our entire family (me in SF, mom in

Most marketing distribution: “Here’s the highest-level summary of our thing, go check it out.” Better marketing distribution: “Here’s a specific insight from a thing we did. What do you think? Also there’s lots more where that came from.”