Weekly Mix #179 - Jargon, Advice, Working Smarter & Modern Experiments

Weekly Mix #179 - Jargon, Advice, Working Smarter & Modern Experiments

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Happy Monday!

I hope you all had a great week.

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For all of you that have today as a holiday, I hope you get some rest!

In this week’s newsletter:

Blog Post: Why I Hate Jargon​

Article: Advice​

Article: Smarter, Not Harder: How to Succeed at Work​

Article: The year that Congress just gave people money​

Article: Off-road, off-grid: the modern nomads wandering America's back country​

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Have a wonderful week!

Graham

Blog Post: Why I Hate Jargon​

Using jargon—big words, domain-specific words, acronyms—makes us feel good. It makes us feel like experts.

But I've become increasingly convinced that it does more harm than good, and is one of the most frequent causes of communication breakdowns.

We should avoid it in all but a couple cases.

Article: Advice - Patrick Collison​

Re-reading this classic article from Patrick Collison, one of the founders of Stripe. Advice applicable across your life, with things like:

Make things

Practice coming up with your own worldview

To the extent that you enjoy working hard, do.

Make friends over the internet

Article: Smarter, Not Harder: How to Succeed at Work​

Talent doesn't win, focus and effectiveness does.

The more time I've spent learning about productivity tools and hacks, the more I've realized those aren't the key to elite output.

The people who really separate themselves get better at choosing what to work on, and how they approach it, rather than micro improvements in how much they can get done in a day.

Article: The year that Congress just gave people money​

Universal basic income is a topic that comes up over and over.

But we're actually in the middle of the first large-scale experiment in the United States, with the relief packages provided by Congress during COVID-19.

How should that shape our policies moving forward?

Article: Off-road, off-grid: the modern nomads wandering America's back country​

#vanlife has been becoming more popular over the past few years, but some people have been doing it for years.

This is an interesting look at some of those people, often using it as a means of living on very little income, with links to more in-depth resources on living from a van.

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​Austin Schlessinger and I with a long list of writing resources​

​Nick Huber on how most people should be focusing on small businesses​

​David Perell's home office/recording studio​

​Good reasons to launch an online course from Aditi Parekh​

​Dickie Bush on indicators of wealth​

​Trung Phan with a breakdown of big future ideas​

​Ali Abdaal on creating a hook in your videos​

​A list of useful Mac apps from Tim Urban​

​Ryan Petersen's work-from-home setup​

​Nick Maggiulli on the 10 biggest money mistakes people make​

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