#6: High Agency, sides of risk and Rory Sutherland
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Welcome to the sixth issue of my newsletter, in which I share the cool links I came across this week.
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Articles I’ve loved
High Agency (4 min read)
High Agency is about finding a way to get what you want, without waiting for conditions to be perfect or otherwise blaming the circumstances.
Combine this with Talent and High Integrity. (nice framework from Shreyas Doshi)
The Three sides of Risk (13 min)
Morgan Housel depicting the three distinct sides of risk through a tragic ski story:
The odds you will get hit.
The average consequences of getting hit.
The tail-end consequences of getting hit.
Short Story for Engineers (2 min)
A funny little story about thinking out-of-the-box.
Google Interview Questions Deconstructed: The Knight’s Dialer (15 min)
For the technical people among us: a step-by-step walkthrough for a Google interview question. Bonus points if you first try to solve it yourselves!
Video I’ve loved
Inspired by listening to the Invest Like The Best episode with Rory Sutherland, I stumbled across his TEDx Talk. He states the power of reframing/rebranding things and gives some very compelling examples.
Fun Tweet
Get a receipt of your top Spotify tracks the past month, 6 months or year via https://receiptify.herokuapp.com/ (original tweet)
I’ll start:
Thanks for reading this week! Which article did you like the most? Let me know!
Until next time,
Matthias