Category: Skills
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The Power of Nuance
David Epstein’s book, Range, highlights how a broad set of experiences helps us drive innovation. Knowledge in different domains enables us to make analogies to describe new and unexplored territory. Epstein doesn’t specifically call out vocabulary, but I believe an extensive repository of words helps us build the analogies necessary to explain the yet unknown.…
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Eyes up. Breathe. Let’s Go!
This is a little mantra I put together before a recent presentation. 👀Eyes Up When I saw pictures of myself from a previous presentation, I noticed that my body language was very different at the beginning of the talk from the rest of it. Getting started is the hardest part of presenting for me. This…
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Build Durable Skills
Durable skills, skills that last, have been top of mind for me lately. During Microsoft’s Discover Day, I heard Nadim Abdo recommend building durable skills like communications. Serendipitously, I was writing myself a note about durable skills in a presentation on the value of developing a deep reading practice. Durable skills like communication and reading…