Incite Your Month: April 2022
At CTQ, we kick each month off with a collection of ideas & recos from the team’s recent curiosity diet. It helps us ‘incite’ the rest of the month. Here’s this month’s edition.
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One insightful book
“Brain Rules” by John Medina
What: Learn what goes on inside our brains.
One takeaway: Discover and stick to your natural sleep cycle if you want to improve how your brain works.
Check it out if: ...you are interested in finding out how your brain works!
One intriguing article
“What's the worst leadership advice” by Jean-Michel Lemieux
What:
What's wrong with the advice of 'hire the best and step out of their way'?
One takeaway: Alignment is the difference between stagnation and progress…
Check it out if: ...you want to learn about the difference between micromanaging and alignment.
One inspiring Smartcast
“How to be relevant in a tech startup?” with Nirant Kasliwal
What: Nirant Kasliwal is an alumnus of BITS Pilani and wrote a book on Natural Language Processing just three years after graduating. In this episode, we spoke to Nirant about how he wrote the book and how it helped (or not) him in his Engineering career.
One takeaway: Reference checks are not just for recruiters - Engineers joining a startup should do reference checks about the company, leaders and culture.
Check it out if: ...you want to find out what young Engineers are looking for in their careers.
One interesting podcast
“Luca Dellanna on Compulsion, Self-deception and the Brain” on Econ Talk
What: Luca Dellanna helps organizations become antifragile. Continuing with our (inadvertent) theme of this edition, Luca talks about the Brain in this episode.
One takeaway: For the brain, consider the analogy of a company. Different parts of the brain have access to different information and just in a company, everyone is trying to work with the information they have access to, for the company objective.
Check it out if: ...you are interested in knowing more about how the brain works.
One Smart Lever
The Power Of Moments
What: Find out which moments are more memorable than others and how to engineer them.
Check it out if:... you are interested in understanding how to improve experiences like employee onboarding.