thinking skills
How To Build a Decision System That Protects Your Thinking
The best decision-makers aren't smarter. They control when, where, and how they decide. Here's the system that makes that possible.
How To Quit Defending Decisions You Know Are Wrong
The reason you can't let go isn't logic. It's that quitting would threaten who you believe you are.
Shell Had Six Years to Prepare. I Had Four Months.
Outstanding leaders under pressure aren't making great decisions. They're executing decisions they already made. The difference is preparation. And most leaders skip it.
How to Beat Decision Fatigue
Your brain doesn't shut down when it's tired. It quietly lowers its standards and never tells you.
How to Stop Overthinking Your Decisions
Gathering more information feels responsible. There's a point where it tips into overthinking and keeps you stuck.
Mindjacking: When Your Opinions Aren't Yours
Every day you make decisions you think are yours. Most aren't. The algorithm decided, the expert weighed in, the crowd chose. You just clicked agree.
Mental Models — Your Thinking Toolkit
NASA engineers and management had the same data. Their conclusions were 1000x apart. The difference? The mental tools they used to think.
From Teligent Disaster to HP Success: A Second-Order Thinking Story
Kevin Allodi thought three moves ahead when I wasn't thinking past the first. His decision saved my family—and taught me the framework I use for billion-dollar calls.
I Wore a Red Badge Inside the NSA. Here's What Happened.
I mastered probabilistic thinking in my algorithm. Then made every wrong bet with my business.
HP Won Innovation Awards. Then Killed What Made It True.
Three years on the Most Innovative list. Thirteen years absent. Here's what changed—and what it proves about causation.
