Motivation Minute Spencer Harro and Jeriah Miller

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: 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).

- 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: 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: 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: 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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