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KnotChat: Nicole Walters
Nicole Walters is a bestselling author, a TV star, a community leader, a mom and a maker of magic. Here’s the conversation we did about The Knot. PS to celebrate the book, my publisher put the Kindle edition of This is Strategy on sale for $2 this week. CORRECTED LINK: Today at 10:30 ET, I’ll […]
Responsibility, fault, blame and shame
They’re not the same. They (mostly) don’t even rhyme. People can evade responsibility by saying it’s someone else’s fault. They can take responsibility, even if it’s not their fault. In fact, being an adult involves taking responsibility for things that we could point out are not our fault. We can…
Badge vs Scoreboard
Our world is shaped by contagious and competitive games. Along the way, we invent scoreboards that change the culture, and badges that we award to various players. An example: How did we end up with weddings that cost $200,000? It’s a great example of a runway cultural dynamic, a system within a…
KnotChat: Rodrigo Delavina Simon
Who’s it for? This problem you’re solving–is it your problem or are you focused on someone else? I had a conversation with Rodrigo about his restaurant in Mexico: You can have your own conversation with a colleague: find the free tool at: theknot.chat
Invitation to a KnotChat
I’ve built a simple website that facilitates the conversations that can help us get unstuck. In The Knot, I describe how we get entangled, hoping for two things to co-exist that cannot. We hide behind the entanglements, refusing to see them, and so our problems can feel permanent. Working with…
KnotChat! (Simone Giertz and Chip Conley)
All this week, to celebrate the launch of The Knot, I’ll be posting conversations I’ve had about problem-solving. Some are more focused on the structured approach built into the free tool I built (find it at theknot.chat ) while, others, like these two, are a bit looser. The first one I recorded…
A book can’t change your life
But you can. Especially if your community is there to help. All help is self-help, multiplied by the expectations, support and compassion of the people around you. Willpower and self-control are a mystery–we’re influenced far more by our situation, by the culture around us and by everything that’s…
Upside/downside
The sensitivity analysis for a decision is easy to overlook, because we tend to focus on the expected outcome. Perhaps it makes sense to begin with the edges instead. Upside: If this works, really works, what are the implications? Downside: If this fails, totally, what are the costs? After we…
Disconcerting genre shift
If you sit down to watch a documentary and realize, about ten minutes in, that it’s actually a feature film, everything about it feels off until you shift into a different mode. Walk into a new doctor’s office, and it might take a few minutes to realize they’re not the kind of doctor you’re used […]
A series of bad decisions
Sometimes we make poor choices. And, unrelated to that, sometimes bad luck happens. The real problem kicks in after that. One bad decision after another. Choices that compound the problem instead of solving it. Digging a deeper hole, amplifying the damage and spreading the effects through space and…
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