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Silicon valley types and tech icons all recommend using OKRs for business steering, but each means something slightly different

Silicon valley types and tech icons all recommend using OKRs for business steering, but each means something slightly different

John Doerr – Measure what matters

If you look past the author’s boundless Andy Grove adoration, there are some useful lessons to be learnt.

Statistical thinking leads to better decisions, but unfortunately most people are bad at that

Statistical thinking leads to better decisions, but unfortunately most people are bad at that

Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass Sunstein – Noise

Overly simplified presentation of basic statistics that cuts some corners, as superbly pointed out by Andrew Gelman.

For more impact: write your own rules, commit to redistributing power, and fight for fairness

For more impact: write your own rules, commit to redistributing power, and fight for fairness

Sam Conniff Allende – Be more Pirate

Entertaining and motivating.

Ben Horowitz – The hard thing about hard things

Ben Horowitz – The hard thing about hard things

In the end no-one but the founder-CEO really cares how difficult it is to do the right thing for your start-up.

Comfortingly desillusional perspective on entrepreneurship, with reassuring insights like: “No one cares.”

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