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How To Get Your Boss or Client To Support Your Idea

What’s usually missing from common advice for ‘getting to yes’.

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tags: Work, Stakeholders, Advice, Management, Career, Pitching, Research, Consultancy, User Experience, User Research, Getting to Yes, Bias to Action, self-improvement, Mind Hack, Self-improvement, Personal development, Personal growth
categories: Humanity, Design
Monday 04.11.22
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Finding Genius Right Where You Are

A story about the oft-overlooked inspiration you might find just one desk down from where you sit

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tags: Seven Things, Nero Okwa, Newsletters, Side Projects, Passion, Personal, Work
categories: Humanity, Creativity
Friday 04.08.22
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Calm Your Anger With Netflix Philosophy

When emotions run wild, remember the ideas that give you perspective and strength. Here are three of my recent favourites.

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tags: Anger, Emotions, Challenges, Mind Hack, Life, Personal, Work, Attitude, Netflix, Stoicism
categories: Humanity
Wednesday 03.30.22
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Identify Your Values + Template

Find out what makes you or your team tick by whittling down this template of 210 values

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tags: life, self-improvement, Process, Personal, Work, workshop, Happiness, Career, Reflection
categories: Humanity
Monday 02.07.22
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To Solve Your Hardest Problems Don’t Think About Them — For a While

Take advantage of the ‘Deliberation-Without-Attention’ effect and create your own eureka moments

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tags: mind hack, productivity, Psychology, Design, Work, Creativity
categories: Creativity
Wednesday 11.15.17
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Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy UX Design?

When computers start to know us better than we do, will they start to design our technology too?

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tags: AI, Artifician Intelligence, future, Work
categories: Design
Sunday 06.19.16
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

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