"The brain learns best when it's surprised — when it detects a mismatch between an expectation and a result. If you rely on a calculator for 5 x 10 and a typo gives you '500,' your brain feels no error because it never made a prediction. You bypass a fundamental learning mechanism."

#knowledgework #learning

https://evakeiffenheim.medium.com/the-smartest-people-i-know-are-obsessed-with-a-skill-many-were-told-is-useless-b9416c6fb856

"If your environment has λ = 3 and you're trying to do θ = 90 work, you're going to have a bad time."

#knowledgework #attention

https://justoffbyone.com/posts/math-of-why-you-cant-focus-at-work/

"OKRs graphs don't make your teams more focused. Repeated conversations about the goals do."

#purpose #okrs #focus #knowledgework #goodhartslaw

https://www.tability.io/okrs/cascading-vs-aligning-okrs