Grant Gochnauer: Awesome Humans — Issue #111
Awesome Human
How This Anxious Introvert Handles Large Events — hunterwalk.com
Great post by Hunter Walk for introverts on how to handle being in large groups of people at events.
Every Single Cognitive Bias in One Infographic — www.visualcapitalist.com
Here’s all 188 cognitive biases in existence, grouped by how they impact our thoughts and actions. We also give some specific cognitive bias examples.
Human Builders
Facebook’s VP of Product on Mastering Focus and Intentional Work — firstround.com
“The only way to have this type of flexibility is to build a culture that makes change totally expected and acceptable — that’s what will make these instances less painful,” says Simo. “You create this culture by putting people in charge of a problem, not a product; reinforcing again and again that you’re all working in a market where assumptions change and that’s okay; releasing products early to get initial feedback and adjusting accordingly. If you do all that, you create an organization that can absorb change — and that’s vital.”
Our 6 Must Reads for Building and Leading a Product Design Team — firstround.com
A well-thought-out design team often accompanies enduring product design. Here are six pieces of advice to help you build and lead a design team from the sole designer to a larger design organization.
A framework for understanding the future of work — hrtimesblog.com
“In a recent issue of Deloitte Review, John Hagel, Jeff Schwartz, and Josh Bersin suggest a framework for understanding the future of work and its implications for individuals, organizations, and governments. HR Times caught up with John and Jeff to hear more about the framework and how HR leaders and professionals can apply it.”
Creating an innovation culture
www.mckinsey.com
Corning’s Silicon Valley technology chief shares how to stay creative over the long haul, drawing on 40 years of experience.
Silicon Valley Eats Its Young with “Disruption” — www.wired.com
A decade of genre-busting innovation from Silicon Valley has us primed for transformative companies. But those expectations are killing fledgling startups.
Future Humans
Science Could Allow Us to Literally Reset Our Bodies’ Clocks — futurism.com
Scientists are searching for biomarkers that could be measured in blood to help us figure out our body’s clock and enter a new era in sleep.
Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation — cosmosmagazine.com
Just in case it’s been weighing on your mind, you can relax now. A team of theoretical physicists from Oxford University in the UK has shown that life and reality cannot be merely simulations generated by a massive extraterrestrial computer. The finding — an unexpectedly definite one — arose from the discovery of a novel link between gravitational anomalies and computational complexity.
Chip Reprograms Cells to Regenerate Damaged Tissue — www.scientificamerican.com
The ability to convert, or “reprogram,” cells into other types has raised hopes for regenerating damaged limbs and organs. But existing methods are risky or inefficient and have been tried only on laboratory animals. A new technology could overcome these limitations, however. Researchers have used it to restore injured mouse legs and claim the technique is safe enough to test in humans.
One More Thing
Ellen Isn’t Giving Up Hope in the Midst of Devastating Events — www.youtube.com
Given the events of the last few weeks, this is a must watch to remember that there are a lot of awesome humans who make the world a better place.
