Dui Toledo on Life

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Adding perspective through the competence canvas

When looking at your whole set of competencies, it all comes together on a painting that's even more uniquely yours.

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The 3 modes of work: Stabilizers, Improvers and Foundations

There's limited overlap between the work to build quick bridges to different destinations and the work to build a really big and strong bridge.

self-discipline

Choosing the right indicators

Having the right indicators and measuring them correctly is critical for success, but much harder than it seems.

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Achieving exponential outcomes by choosing the right axe

Some trees can never be cut without the right axe, sharpened the right way.

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Digital geography

Are there different digital geographies that can significantly shape the information, opportunities, and connections you have access to?

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How to make time to optimize

By definition, you can't focus on everything.

leadership

High-standards satisficer

If you care about results, it really doesn't matter that you're finding the best choice of a bad pool. It's much better to find a top-percentile choice in a great pool.

leadership

Your circus, your monkeys: making good decisions

Compromise is working through disagreements by finding a bad decision on which there's consensus.

3 Principles: Competence, Collaboration, and Prudence

How to pursue a good life if there's no consensus or proof of what "good" means? How do we ensure we're working towards our collective goals, be they at our company, family, or community, if they are unclear or when we're far

leadership

Easy and Hard activity routines

I use "ambition is useful, greed is not" as the motto for "make things as hard as you can – but not harder."

leadership

Autonomy and Opportunity

You increase your autonomy by building automation and delegation, and increase opportunity by building credibility.

leadership

Building patience by managing complexity

Impatience, and its feelings of frustration, restlessness, agitation, and annoyance, won't lead to sustainable top performance, so it's a poor tool for collaboration.

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How I choose books to read

My personal library has a curated list of books that I've previously chosen as interesting and that are immediately accessible in my living room for no extra cost.

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Overcoming anxiety with self-efficacy

Your anxiety decreases at the rate your mastery increases.

105 hours

120% time – committing 8 hours a week

400 hours is enough to make progress on pretty much anything: learning AI, building your MVP product, learning the guitar, writing 100 blogposts, reading ~70 books, ...

philosophy Featured

Rethinking Mill's harm clause under Capitalism and AI

How should you, as an individual, change your day-to-day economic interactions with others based on the harm clause and their lack of access to basic needs?

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Lives Well Lived podcast

I was on the Lives Well Lived podcast with Peter Singer & Kasia de Lazari Radek

leadership

A fun, good, nice job

No matter what brackets you define for your A, B, and Cs to rate how fun, good, and nice the jobs are, not every job, in every career, will have the potential to be an AAA.

ai Featured

How does ChatGPT work?

I think part of the reason ChatGPT is hard to understand is that we lack the foundational concepts to build upon when reasoning about it.

philosophy Featured

Religion, Politics, and Moral Philosophy

Each of us will have our own guides for moral truth: our religion and preachers, our politics and politicians, our favorite philosophy and philosophers, and our own ideas and feelings on what is right and wrong

self-discipline

Knowledge, Practice, Trial and Performance

One thing is certain: performing 100% of the time and not employing knowledge, practice, or trials is not an efficient way to improve your competencies

leadership

Using core values as constraints

While values that maximize success seem like a playing-to-win tactic, values that constrain possible moves seem like a scrub tactic. But of course, they're the same set of values.

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The 4 downsides of Slack communication vs meetings

While Alice had a "quick question," Bob absolutely didn't have a "quick answer" – a typical Slack affliction.

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Using skill-pressure to build competencies

Skill-pressure is a common thing, it just doesn't have a well-known name.

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3 Steps for long term career planning

If you don't plan your long-term career, you'll still have a long-term career, just not the one you planned.