Motivation Minute Spencer Harro and Jeriah Miller
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Two aspiring entrepreneurs discuss business ideas and practical personal development tips. Show hosts: Spencer Harro (Baltimore, MD), a recent electrical engineering grad. Jeriah Miller (Libby, MT), a self-taught entrepreneur and filmmaker.
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Reinventing Jobs: Applying Automation in the Workplace (Ravin Jesuthasan)
Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work
- The intent of automation should not be eliminating jobs, but achieving the optimum synergy of humans and automation.
- Return on Invested Performance is a critical metric for getting the best bang for your buck when choosing systems to automate
- Repetitiveness, human interaction, and cognitive load impact if automation is worthwhile -
Sprint (Jake Knapp)
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz)
- Sprints help you fast forward to the future and see customers react sooner
- The longer you wait, it becomes increasingly harder to change products
- Your product is never “ready” - but a sprint-mindset helps you make time-based releases (instead of feature-based). -
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Nir Eyal)
- To get into the habit zone, your product needs to be used frequently and provide great utility
- The time or money investment users make in services greatly impacts how hooked they are
- Changing someone’s motivation is challenging - scarcity and a sense of progress make a big difference -
The Proximity Principle (Ken Coleman)
The Proximity Principle: The Proven Strategy that Will Lead to the Career You Love (Ken Coleman)
- Being intentional about who you surround yourself with is the key to a fulfilling future
- Every career stepping stone matters. It could become a long-term career cornerstone
- You don’t summit Mt. Everest all at once - success is a step-by-step process
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Gorilla Mindset (Mike Cernovich)
Gorilla Mindset: How to Dominate and Unleash the Animal Inside You (Mike Cernovich)
- To get more out of life, you must get more out of yourself.
- He who controls how something is framed controls the debate.
- Quick mental checklists can be powerful tools for focusing your attention
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The Simplicity Cycle (with Andrew Smith)
The Simplicity Cycle: The Field Guide to Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse (Dan Ward)
- We tend to be drawn towards complexity, when deep down we yearn for simplicity
- Simplicity is a combination of complexity (features) and “goodness” (functionality)
- True productivity is maximizing the value of existing features
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