March Medium All-Stars of The Month — Grey Swan Guild Intelligence Scan
We have been scanning the world out there for great thinkers and their content which make sense of today’s challenges and next Grey Swans.
Author: Sean Moffitt
Here is our list of thirty (32) brilliant thinkers and their associated content for March’22:
Theme 1 — Ambition & Drive:
“Ambitious people have gone from writing cheques to writing code. Today the most ambitious individuals don’t own the means of production, if they can write code they are their own means of production (Marx would, perhaps, be surprised). This gives ambitious people unprecedented power.” — Matt Clifford
Some evergreen posts here but still resonate five-six years later:
Maris Kreizman— Where did my ambition go?
Rosie Spinks — It’s Time to Replace Ambition with Adaptation
Matt Clifford— Technology Entrepreneurship and The Disruption of Ambition
Zat Rana — Beyond Insecurity: The Positive Power of the Right Kind of Ambition
Scott Ginsberg -Does You Ambition Drive or Hold You Back?
Sarah Thomas — The Tom Sawyer Effect: Intrinsic(ish) Motivation in Gamification
Pondd Sughana — My take away from reading ‘Drive’
Tim Denning — 1 Year of Effort to Build a Side Hustle. 5 Years to Make Enough Money so You Never Work a Job Again.
Theme 2 — Ambiguity & Managing Uncertainty
“Our dominant way of thinking in dualistic opposites makes us blind to the underlying unity. Nature is hardly ever that black or white; mostly we are dealing with shades of grey. The way we tend to try to establish certainty is by defining a particular way of seeing and limiting the boundaries of the system in question. What results is the illusion of certainty.” — Daniel Christian Wahl
The view on our murky pasts, presents and futures from a variety of standpoints.
Lisa Kay Solomon — The New MBA: A Masters in Business Ambiguity
Umair Haque — Ambiguity and the Art of Meaning
Daniel Christian Wahl — Facing complexity means befriending uncertainty and ambiguity
Pedro Canhenha — Ambiguity and the Design Process
Shanna Peeples- Why Not Knowing What’s Next Can Make You Feel Crazy
The Mission.org — 11 Ways Emotionally Intelligent People Overcome Uncertainty
Sebastian Kwiatkowski — Entropy is a measure of uncertainty
Markham Heid — Science Explains Why Uncertainty Is So Hard on Our Brain
Theme 3 — Adaptability & Flexible Thinking
“Sometimes the difficulty lies, not in having new ideas, but in escaping old ones.” — John Milton Keynes.
Functional fixedness, neuroplasticity, adaptability quotients, reframing — they are all here.
Bryan Johnson — Future Literacy: The Adaptability Problem
Gustavo Razzetti — Adaptability: The Competitive Advantage of Innovative Teams
Jonah Malin — It’s Not About IQ or EQ Anymore, but Adaptability
I&CO — The One Skill You Need For Survival: Adaptability
Jean-marc Buchert — How AI could get a deeper understanding of human language (and flexible thinking born out of analogy)
Joanne Reed — Left-Brain v Right-Brain. Doesn’t Really Matter. Be Flexible In Your Thinking
Dr. Caroline Leaf — Unwiring Perfectionism + How Flexible Thinking Can Help Reduce Anxiety & Stress (With Poppy Jamie)
Younnes Henni — Elastic Thinking: How It Can Help You Solve Your Biggest Challenges
Theme 4 — Attention & Concentration
“The world has become increasingly well connected in the past decades. This means that content is increasing in volume, which exhausts our attention. And our urge for ‘newness’ causes us to collectively switch between topics more rapidly,” says Philipp Lorenz-Spreen
The 8 second Goldfish tule, too long: didn’t read, some great tips and the difference/epidemic of involuntary and voluntary attention.
Jayashree — Will You Please be my TL;DR?
Dr. Faisal Jamshaid — Attention Span vs. Consideration Span — Why You Should Know The Difference
Anik Mehta — Tips to Improve Concentration
Lauren McNeil — Getting My Attention Span Back Post-Pandemic
Evan Bartosch — Why is your attention span so short?
Shreejit Sudhakaran — Ever Wondered Why We Lose Interest In Almost Anything So Quickly?
Jayabrata Das — What Science tells us about a Focused Mind and how to get that?
Leigh Harrison — A Time of Focus
Grey Swan Guild — 50 Shades of … Grey Thinkers
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