Dui Toledo on Life

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105 Hours – My Digital Minimalism

105 Hours – My Digital Minimalism

There are many downsides to this approach of using technology, but it also frees up an enormous amount of time and attention to focus on what matters most.

Your system is a lagging indicator of your team

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Your system is a lagging indicator of your team

Today's system reflects your team from years ago, and the system you'll have years from now will reflect the team you have today.

How are you? A simple personal evaluation.

How are you? A simple personal evaluation.

Although you value your well-being, sometimes you may struggle prioritizing taking care of yourself. I know I do. I want to suggest a minimalistic scorecard to answer how you are doing – from a personal well-being standpoint. * Physical: Sleep, diet, exercises * Emotional: Stress, anxiety, and depression * Cognitive: Intelligence, culture, and focus

Company Targeted Excellence

Company Targeted Excellence

There's a high level of synergy between your Product and People strategy when you constrain instead of expanding your impact.

Targeted excellence

Targeted excellence

We can increase control over the targeting of our impact by developing our competence, building our marketing, and securing resources.

Are you trying to be happy.. or what?

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Are you trying to be happy.. or what?

My point is that although we're making progress, in general we don't quite know what we're talking about when we're talking about happiness.

It takes time to start

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It takes time to start

My theory is that we resist pulling the trigger because we're afraid of missing.

Pursuing authenticity over outcomes

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Pursuing authenticity over outcomes

As you grow, though, you should find your voice more and more. Life is not karaoke; it's a concert! And people paid good money to see you.

How to achieve all your New Year's resolutions

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How to achieve all your New Year's resolutions

If achieving yearly goals was easy, everybody would be doing it; yet most people don't.

2 steps back, 1 step forward

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2 steps back, 1 step forward

Improving is a habit that requires you to become uncomfortable to keep growing.

Adding perspective through the competence canvas

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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.

The 3 modes of work: Stabilizers, Improvers and Foundations

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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.

Choosing the right indicators

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Choosing the right indicators

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

Achieving exponential outcomes by choosing the right axe

Achieving exponential outcomes by choosing the right axe

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

Digital geography

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Digital geography

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

How to make time to optimize

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How to make time to optimize

By definition, you can't focus on everything.

High-standards satisficer

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.

Your circus, your monkeys: making good decisions

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

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

Easy and Hard activity routines

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."

Autonomy and Opportunity

Autonomy and Opportunity

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

Building patience by managing complexity

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.

How I choose books to read

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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.

Overcoming anxiety with self-efficacy

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Overcoming anxiety with self-efficacy

Your anxiety decreases at the rate your mastery increases.

120% time – committing 8 hours a week

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, ...