{{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/35/images/1055999137.jpg" title="Making better, faster decisions that are good enough for now | by Bonnie Sl" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/making-better-faster-decisions-that-are-good-enough-for-now-how-to-use-consent-based-decision-eef45ed8c976" domain="medium.com" date="2021-05-19" tags="leadership, psychology, tech" excerpt="For the past year, I’ve been lucky enough to work on a big technology project at Xero, where I spend much of my time supporting the leadership team. But it didn’t take long for me to realise that…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/35/images/1055999164.jpg" title="Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork? - BBC Worklife" link="https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210507-why-we-glorify-the-cult-of-burnout-and-overwork" domain="bbc.com" date="2021-05-10" tags="psychology, tech" excerpt="Overwork culture is thriving; we think of long hours and constant exhaustion as a marker of success. Given what we know about burnout, why do we do give in?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/35/images/1055999129.jpg" title="How to build organizational resilience – Increment: Reliability" link="https://increment.com/reliability/how-to-build-organizational-resilience/" domain="increment.com" date="2021-04-02" tags="business, leadership, psychology, tech" excerpt="By encoding resilience into an organization’s culture, engineering teams can be better equipped to tackle the unknown and unexpected." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/35/images/1055999084.gif" title="Why It’s Not Too Late to Learn New Skills | The New Yorker" link="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/18/is-it-really-too-late-to-learn-new-skills" domain="newyorker.com" date="2021-03-02" tags="career, health, psychology" excerpt="You missed your chance to be a prodigy, but there’s still growth left for grownups, Margaret Talbot writes." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/35/images/1055999086.jpg" title="'Why Do I Spend Weeks Avoiding Tasks That Will Take Me 10 Minutes to Do?'" link="https://www.vice.com/en/article/akd44z/why-do-i-procrastinate" domain="vice.com" date="2021-02-25" tags="health, productivity, psychology, tech" excerpt="Procrastinating has less to do with time management and more to do with mood management." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/36/images/1055999116.jpg" title="Is work the right getaway from private problems?" link="https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/work-paradise-away-from-personal-issues" domain="welcometothejungle.com" date="2021-02-22" tags="career, psychology" excerpt="Feeling good at work can save us from feeling bad at home. But there is a thin line between enjoying work and becoming a workaholic." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/36/images/1055999113.jpg" title="How my military service helped me thrive in a corporate career | by Josh An" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/how-my-military-service-helped-me-thrive-in-a-corporate-career-4c30151a3db0" domain="medium.com" date="2021-02-08" tags="career, psychology, tech" excerpt="I decided to join the military during my second year of college, right after 9/11. I spent that summer working for the Bureau of Land Management, doing backcountry survey expeditions in Wyoming. I…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/36/images/1055999107.jpg" title="'Revenge Bedtime Procrastination' Is Real, According to Psychologists | Gla" link="https://www.glamour.com/story/revenge-bedtime-procrastination-is-real-according-to-psychologists" domain="glamour.com" date="2021-02-03" tags="psychology" excerpt="Revenge bedtime procrastination is the phenomenon where you stubbornly stay up late for no reason because you feel like you didn't get any time to yourself." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/37/images/1055999039.jpg" title="Knowledge Worker’s Prayer: Best Practices to Stay Sane and Sensible in Digi" link="https://medium.com/getting-things-in-out-and-across-heads/knowledge-workers-prayer-when-to-sync-and-when-to-async-a94ea71d0543" domain="medium.com" date="2021-01-11" tags="productivity, psychology, tech" excerpt="God, grant me the serenity to mute Slack notifications, courage to reject meetings I didn't schedule, and wisdom to differentiate: 1) calls that should be emails, and emails that should be calls, 2) Zoom that should be phone calls, and phone calls that should be Zooms, ...." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/37/images/1055999048.jpg" title="The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done | The New Yorker" link="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-rise-and-fall-of-getting-things-done" domain="newyorker.com" date="2021-01-11" tags="leadership, management, productivity, psychology" excerpt="Cal Newport on the 43 Folders blogger Merlin Mann; the late productivity expert Peter Drucker; the author David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” method; and why G.T.D. doesn’t address the anxiety and inefficiency associated with e-mail overload, a phenomenon that knowledge workers e" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/37/images/1055999080.webp" title="10 Principles to Organize Your Life (And Keep It That Way)" link="https://blog.doist.com/organize-your-life" domain="blog.doist.com" date="2021-01-09" tags="health, productivity, psychology" excerpt="10 principles for organizing your work, home, health, fitness, hobbies, finances, and more..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/38/images/1055997760.webp" title="41 Powerful Journaling Exercises for Mind Expansion and Effective Behavior" link="https://journalsmarter.com/journaling-exercises-behavior-change" domain="journalsmarter.com" date="2020-11-25" tags="psychology" excerpt="Over the next 41 weeks, you have a chance to change your life. These journaling exercises use world-class expert knowledge to help you get there." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/38/images/1055999029.webp" title="7 Cognitive Biases That Make Us Suck at Time Management" link="https://blog.doist.com/cognitive-biases-time-management" domain="blog.doist.com" date="2020-11-19" tags="productivity, psychology" excerpt="Our brains are hardwired to sabotage our productivity. Can we do anything about it?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/38/images/1055999051.jpg" title="How Frictionless Technology Is Making Us Miserable | Digital Trends" link="https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-frictionless-internet" domain="digitaltrends.com" date="2020-11-18" tags="product, psychology, tech" excerpt="Frictionless experiences have long been a top priority for interface designers, but the war on friction has led to some unintended consequences" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/39/images/1055999030.png" title="‘All I wanted to do was get into bed and pull the covers over my head.’ | b" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/all-i-wanted-to-do-was-get-into-bed-and-pull-the-covers-over-my-head-b6f8cbfc4c66" domain="medium.com" date="2020-10-28" tags="health, psychology" excerpt="One in five people are affected by mental health challenges each year. And while the world continues to experience the unprecedented impact of the global health emergency due to COVID-19, millions…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/39/images/1055999026.png" title="How prioritisation has guided my personal approach to mental wellbeing | by" link="https://medium.com/humans-of-xero/how-prioritisation-has-guided-my-personal-approach-to-mental-wellbeing-24e7f502b09d" domain="medium.com" date="2020-10-26" tags="psychology, tech" excerpt="Prioritisation is one of those processes that is simple to understand but difficult to action. At its heart, prioritisation involves understanding the work you have to do and choosing to focus on the…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055997875.jpg" title="Why Our Leaders Fail Us and Then Save Us: The Preventable Problem Paradox |" link="https://medium.com/@shreyashere/why-our-leaders-fail-us-and-then-save-us-the-preventable-problem-paradox-872614ec3293" domain="medium.com" date="2020-10-08" tags="leadership, psychology" excerpt="Have you ever wondered why a smart company like Facebook is also the undisputed World Champion of Self-Inflicted Debacles? Or, why Google falls prey to avoidable mistakes — across its products…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055998977.jpg" title="Why Time Management Won't Solve Your Time Problems" link="https://blog.doist.com/create-more-time" domain="blog.doist.com" date="2020-09-28" tags="career, productivity, psychology" excerpt="Having more time is like earning more money — the more you have, the more you want to spend. Here's a different way to think about it..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/40/images/1055998978.webp" title="Improve Your Focus and Find Your Calling by Working in Seasons - Ambition &" link="https://blog.doist.com/improving-focus-by-working-in-seasons" domain="blog.doist.com" date="2020-09-28" tags="career, productivity, psychology" excerpt="The rest of your life is a long time – start working in seasons instead." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/41/images/1055998976.webp" title="The Neuroscience of Achieving Your Long-Term Goals" link="https://blog.doist.com/neuroscience-achieving-long-term-goals" domain="blog.doist.com" date="2020-09-28" tags="productivity, psychology" excerpt="And 3 strategies for achieving your long-term goals anyway, according to science" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="If Management Isn’t A Promotion, Then Engineering Isn’t A Demotion – charit" link="https://charity.wtf/p/if-management-isnt-a-promotion-then-engineering-isnt-a-demotion" domain="charity.wtf" date="2020-09-18" tags="career, leadership, psychology, tech" excerpt="I wrote a piece this week about what motivates people to become managers (tldr mostly org dysfunction), and Julian Dunn replied with some typically insightful tweets: (I originally titled this arti…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998964.jpg" title="Emotional Agility" link="https://hbr.org/2013/11/emotional-agility" domain="hbr.org" date="2020-08-30" tags="health, leadership, psychology" excerpt="How effective leaders manage their negative thoughts and feelings" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998966.webp" title="Building domain knowledge | Janella’s blog" link="https://blog.janella.nz/posts/2020/08/16/building-domain-knowledge.html" domain="blog.janella.nz" date="2020-08-30" tags="career, psychology, tech" excerpt="I started a new engineering role two weeks ago, after ten years at my previous company." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998942.jpg" title="The Impact of Toxic Influencers on Communities · Intense Minimalism" link="https://intenseminimalism.com/2020/the-impact-of-toxic-influencers-on-communities" domain="intenseminimalism.com" date="2020-08-29" tags="health, psychology, tech" excerpt="There’s a common character that can be often spotted in many online communities. It’s the “toxic influencer” (sometimes referred as “intellectual bully”). A toxic influencer is a person…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/42/images/1055998967.jpg" title="Our Brains Struggle to Process This Much Stress | Elemental" link="https://elemental.medium.com/your-surge-capacity-is-depleted-it-s-why-you-feel-awful-de285d542f4c" domain="elemental.medium.com" date="2020-08-26" tags="psychology" excerpt="We are processing an inordinate amount of stress, loss, and grief over a sustained period of time. Psychologists and experts explain what this does to our brains." >}}