Notion and I are officially breaking up again. A few years ago, I broke up with Evernote. DevonThink.I think linear thinking is not my friend. Join me, as I turn this website into something like: •Maggie Appleton•Linking Your Thinking
I love seeing how knowledge is stored, collected, organized, and transferred, so I’m always collecting different kits and frameworks to see how they differ, and what thought processes and actions we see time and again. Here are some of my favorite toolkits:
Celine Nguyen and I are intellectual soulmates. She works in Are.na, whereas I’m mostly on pinboard.
If you want to enhance your thought leadership, one tool consistently stands out for its ability to bring clarity, structure, and strategic insight: the framework. Frameworks are more than just diagrams or models; they are essential tools that help leaders and organizations make sense of complex information, streamline decision-making processes, and communicate ideas effectively. As…
The following was in an early draft of my first book, Can You Learn to Be Lucky? Date after date after date—at some point, getting free dinner got tiresome. Subconsciously, I had decided to stop my search. “There are a million people in the bar or house party. You can’t talk to them all, so…
Book #3 is in the works!
The latest brouhaha in the never-ending saga of Analyzing Human Behavior is Not Compatible with the Scientific Method is that of Dan Ariely. The behavioral economist and bestselling author of books like Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions has been accused of fabricating data on a paper about dishonesty. I mean, really.…
TABLE OF CONTENTS Fluency Easy = Good Economists ruined everything Fluency in the Real World Over the course of evolution, our brain has developed countless adaptations to successfully adapt to changing environments, navigate uncertainty, and make decisions with minimal information. Most of these adaptations center around how our brain uses energy and processes information. Thanks…
Table of Contents Our obsession with achievement The Revolutionary Act of Self-Acceptance Embracing the Rebellion of Self-Acceptance I just got the memo that Adam Grant’s next book is available for pre-order: Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things. Adam is a genuinely nice person, and I’m sure it’ll be great. I have not read…