Parenting expert and best selling author Barbara Coloroso shares her three foundational principles of child-rearing, how to get kids to be accountable for their actions, and what we can do as parents to raise confident, happy children. Here are a few highlights from our discussion: I came up with three…

Was I in a master’s program or grade school? Some days, I couldn’t tell. And yet that is where everything changed for me. When I came across Charlie Munger’s 1995 Speech, The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, I realized that I could learn more from him than my MBA. So I…

The quality and shape of human decision-making is taking a profound leap forward thanks to new partners: artificial intelligence and machine learning. Many intelligent people view AI with alarmism, but not Pedro Domingos, the University of Washington professor working at the cutting edge of machine learning. …

I was fortunate enough to sit down with FS reader and Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. In our two hour conversation we talk about the biggest mistakes he made in the early days, how he scaled stripe from 2 to over 1,000 employees today, why he values velocity over correctness, his…

Research shows that knowing what you want to accomplish is more important than performance … at least at the start. But once you know where you’re going, you can accelerate progress by religiously implementing these steps. 1. Routines The first tip comes from Tony Schwartz author of The Power of Full Engagement…

Adam Grant, the most thoughtful had a lot of amazing things to say during our interview for the Knowledge Project but I wanted to show you this excerpt on intentional parenting. Shane Parrish: As a father, what do you do to nurture creativity in your kids? Adam Grant: So, I…

How is it we become better at thinking? How is is we learn to make better decisions? And if we can’t make better decisions how is it we learn to avoid stupidity. A while back I came across an irreverent billionaire named Charlie Munger who taught me how to think…

We spend hours consuming news because we want to be well informed. But is that time well spent? News is by definition something that doesn’t last. And as news has become easier to distribute and cheaper to produce, the quality has decreased. Rarely do we stop to ask ourselves questions…

At Farnam Street, our tagline is “Mastering the best of what others have already figured out.” That means if somebody…anybody has a leg up on how to make life a little easier, more productive, and more enjoyable, we want to know about it. One of the best ways I’ve found…