In addition to my job as Chief Analytics Officer at Azumio, I am the founder of a personal growth company called Positive Vector.
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I was the organizer of the NYC rationalist community until I moved to the Bay Area. I wrote a case study about the community, so that I could share the lessons I learned with other potential organizers and community members. This prompted the creation of several dozen meetups around the world. You can read about it here.
I also wrote a post about a wildly successful exercise we did at one of the NYC meetups. We divided into groups of at most four people, picked 12 cognitive biases, and spent 5 minutes on each one discussing how to recognize, correct and utilize them. I wrote down everyone's answers and compiled them into a post here.
I gave a speech on rationality and self-improvement to the 20 Under 20 fellows, describing what rationality is and how to apply it to your life. You can watch the entire speech here.
Enjoy!
Nonviolent Communication is a communication and conflict-resolution process developed by the psychologist Marshall Rosenberg. The book focuses on how to express ourselves in a way that inspires empathy in others, and how to listen to them empathetically in turn. This system radically changed my understanding of human interactions, and using these techniques with myself greatly reduced my own level of self-judgment. I highly recommend this book.
How to Win Friends and Influence People is a classic book by Dale Carnegie with a pretty self-explanatory title. I read this book recently, and was surprised to find that it epitomized a lot of the wisdom I had already picked up from a variety of other sources. Note that this summary is from the revised 1981 edition, which removed the sections on writing good business letters and achieving marital satisfaction.
Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy is an excellent synthesis of much of the existing productivity literature to date, achieving about 80% of the total benefits from time management. My summary here attempts to condense the book into a few pages of critical insights, organized into four primary sections: organization, efficiency, identifying your strengths, and optimizing yourself. Implementing even a small number of these techniques will result in greatly increased effectiveness.
My life purpose is to separate fact from fiction, and then use this knowledge to optimize everything I come across - starting with myself. First I hacked my mind, then I hacked my body, now I hack individuals and organizations. I currently live in the Bay Area and work as the Chief Analytics Officer of the mobile health startup Azumio.
