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“Spoiler Alert: Everyone Dies” – the channel that devours every book, from self‑help to sci‑fi, and spits out the only universal lesson: we’re all worm food eventually. Productivity hacks? Meditation? Viking sagas? Sure… but in the end, same ending.
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Why You Always Feel Behind (It's Not Your Calendar) — Time Anxiety, Chris Guillebeau (opens the original)
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If you always feel behind, you've probably assumed the fix is a better system. Three separate bodies of research say the problem isn't your calendar — and the last one says the tool you gave up on was working, you were just measuring it wrong. Chris Guillebeau visited all 193 countries by his 35th birthday, then wrote Time Anxiety arguing you can't optimise your way out of this feeling. We check that claim against the evidence: the 1994 planning-fallacy study where the deliberate worst-case esti
How to Reinvent a Company (The 5 Moves That Saved ING) (opens the original)
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Cutting costs can stop a company from bleeding to death. But it will never build the next ten years. Most leaders mistake financial recovery for strategic reinvention—and that single confusion is why most corporate turnarounds quietly stall. In this episode, we break down Do Your Thing by Ralph Hamers (former CEO of ING and UBS). You'll learn the five strategic decisions that turned an exhausted, post-bailout bank into a recognized digital leader: replacing 200-page binders with a 1-page strateg
How to Help a Child With Anxiety (Without Feeding the Worry) (opens the original)
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How do you help a child with anxiety when reassurance only works for a minute? This episode shows how to comfort an anxious child without letting worry organize every decision. Using the SAFER Parenting framework from Ashley Graber and Maria Evans, you'll learn how to recognize hidden signs of worry, lower the emotional temperature, validate feelings while guiding behavior, build a child's sense of capability, and replace repeated certainty with support plus one small next step. Research basis:
The Intel Trinity — How to Fight With Your Co-Founder (opens the original)
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Dealing with co-founder conflict? Intel's leadership was worse than yours — the man who actually ran the company couldn't stand the man who founded it — and it still worked. Here's the rule they built instead of chemistry, plus the one question that broke a three-year deadlock and saved the company. What you'll learn: Why avoiding conflict costs more than having it Intel's six rules of "constructive confrontation" — and the part everyone gets backwards The question Andy Grove asked Gordon Moore
Runnin' Down a Dream - The 6-Signal Career Test (opens the original)
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Trying to figure out how to find work you love? This six-signal career test helps separate a real direction from an escape fantasy—without immediately quitting your job.Bill Gurley's Runnin' Down a Dream becomes a practical 30-day experiment: observe what pulls you, test whether you want the unglamorous craft, shorten the distance to honest feedback, and collect evidence before making a life-sized bet.What you'll learn:- The six signals of a career direction worth testing- Why curiosity is usefu
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