Michael Simmons

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While most people fight to learn “in-demand” skills, smart people are learning rare skills instead

When self-made billionaire investor Ray Dalio wanted to understand changing world events, he didn’t just look at the latest news. He became an amateur historian and spent months looking back at cycles going back hundreds of years — something almost no one else does. When Bill Gates wanted to grow…

Learning

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Learning

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In 1911, a genius revealed a forgotten science of how to be 50x more productive without working more hours

“The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the manual worker in manufacturing.” — Peter Drucker Peter Drucker, one of the most respected management thinkers in history, stated these words at the close of the…

Management

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In 1911, a genius revealed a forgotten science of how to be 50x more productive without working…

Management

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Google Director Of Engineering: This is how fast the world will change in ten years

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Futurists from the 20th century predicted that labor saving devices would make leisure abundant. According to the great economist John Maynard Keynes, the big challenge would be that… “For the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his…

Learning

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Google Director Of Engineering: This is how fast the world will change in ten years

Learning

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·Mar 21

The threat to knowledge workers is not AI or automation. It’s their horrifying lack of productivity

Author’s Note: This article is part of a series on productivity that was researched and written over hundreds of hours (yeah, I know, I’m fun at parties) using the blockbuster philosophy. Below are the three other articles in the series: In 1911, a genius revealed a forgotten science of how…

Productivity

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Productivity

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·Feb 28

The Brutal Truth About Life-Changing Opportunities We Overlook Every Day

Author’s Note: This article was researched and written over 50 hours using the blockbuster philosophy. It took a single chance event for one of history’s most profound shifts to happen. Working from home was possible in the early 2000s. It could’ve changed everything starting 20 years ago. Yet, it wasn’t…

Learning

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The Brutal Truth About Life-Changing Opportunities We Overlook Every Day

Learning

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·Feb 14

We’re in a productivity crisis, according to 52 years of data. Things could get really bad.

“The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the manual worker in manufacturing.” — Peter Drucker I spent over 500 hours researching and writing this article. Those 500 hours were spent reading through dozens of…

Productivity

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Productivity

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·Jan 14, 2022

The Brutal Truth About Reading: If You Don’t Take Notes Right, You’ll Forget Nearly Everything

Seven years ago, I swallowed a bitter pill. Up to that point I had read hundreds of books. Yet, when asked about specific ones, I often realized I had forgotten almost everything. The brutal reality was I had wasted thousands of hours. You know what I’m talking about. Right? It’s…

Learning

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The Brutal Truth About Reading: If You Don’t Take Notes Right, You’ll Forget Nearly Everything

Learning

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·Jan 6, 2022

The 100-Hour Rule: Forgotten Study Shows How You Can Become World-Class In 100 Hours

The year is 1976. Anders Ericsson is an unknown, newly minted PhD. Little does he know that he is on the verge of what would be “the most surprising two years” of his career. Ericsson and his collaborator Bill Chase are about to begin the study that will ultimately lead…

Learning

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The 100-Hour Rule: Forgotten Study Shows How You Can Become World-Class In 100 Hours

Learning

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Dec 8, 2021

The Jeff Bezos Hockey Stick Rule: If a technology is growing exponentially, don’t blow the opportunity like most do

In 1994, a 30-year-old Jeff Bezos was a vice president at a prestigious hedge fund in New York City. One day, as he was researching markets, he came across a fascinating fact. This fringe thing that people called the Internet was growing at an incredible 2,300% per year. Immediately, the…

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The Jeff Bezos Hockey Stick Rule: If a technology is growing exponentially, don’t blow the…

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·Mar 24, 2021

5-Hour Rule: If you’re not spending 5 hours per week learning, you’re being irresponsible

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none. Zero.” — Charlie Munger, Self-made billionaire & Warren Buffett’s longtime business partner Why did the busiest person in the world, former president Barack Obama, read an…

Learning

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Learning

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