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What the evidence actually says. 28 slides drawn from 37 RCTs and multiple meta-analyses — on what works, what doesn’t, and what the industry inflates.
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What actually converts professional relationships into revenue. LinkedIn DMs, Zoom calls, in-person events — with persuasion psychology and channel-specific tactics.
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7 research-backed tactics for performing under pressure — with the neuroscience behind each one and 60-second practice instructions.
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The more I dig into AI, the more I find so many wonderful metaphors for thinking about human thinking. One of these is something called context drift.
Read →If you spent any time with AI models, you'll know that each one of them has a different personality to it. And they also work in differently. They...
Read →In their fascinating book Why Greatness Can't Be Planned, Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman discuss the idea of achieving one's objectives, particularly...
Read →There's a genre of funny skits popping up around the internet about conversations and how ChatGPT has ruined our ability to connect with others. We...
Read →If you've been living under a rock, you may not have seen the latest interview that's taking the entrepreneurial side of the internet by storm—Alex...
Read →This is a long one. If you can't read it now, do yourself a favour and mark it unread and come back to it. It'll change how you think about...
Read →I've been chatting with one of my clients recently about "conflict avoidance" and what's come out of the discussion has been so valuable that I have to...
Read →Hope you had a good break and that you're back to full power in the new year. I want to give you a lens today that I think will permanently change your...
Read →It was around my 30th funeral (or so I think, they all blur together at this point) that my life changed.
Read →A couple days ago, I had a prospect call with a young founder out of SF. He was raising a seed round, and was looking for help refining the pitch. We...
Read →The worst thing you can do when delivering bad news is to slap some fake empathy on your face and let fake concern tinge your tone of voice. People...
Read →Rudyard Kipling wrote, to my mind, one of the best poems for these modern times: If you can keep your head when all about you
Read →I spoke with a founder this week who was convinced she couldn't tell her mission-driven story in a fundraising pitch.
Read →(Required reading - "The inner game of Tennis" by Timothy Gallwey)
Read →If I could bottle up everything I know about communication and presence and give it to you in one sentence, it would be this:
Read →AI words slip off the surface of our brains precisely because they’re average (that’s how LLMs work—through statistical probability), they’re not...
Read →Alex Hormozi likes to talk about this parable when he’s discussing price:If you had a ferarri that you offered to sell to someone for $5k, and they...
Read →Every elite performer has two feedback systems running simultaneously (I call them the DualLoop):the biological loop (state control), andthe...
Read →In the decade and a half that I worked for companies, I’ve never seen corporate comms done right. In fact, at the beginning of my journey as a solo...
Read →Every presentation is a story. The trouble is, most are tragedies.
Read →My earliest jobs (post-army) were in knowledge work of the most blue-collar kind: schools. There is a particular kind of frustration you experience...
Read →I have a friend that’s the COO of a $1B startup out of London. He has what I would say is an average background for a founder - a few years in...
Read →If you’ve been online for any length of time, you’ve probably had the experience of someone showing up in your inbox, offering you services you don’t...
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