Learn to Think in Color

What Do You Need to Understand About Work That Nobody Is Going to Teach You? Most workplaces teach you how to perform your responsibilities. They rarely explain the informal system that determines how value is recognized, decisions are made, opportunities appear, and careers develop. A new employee usually receives some combination of a job description, manager, policies, processes, and performance expectations. Those things matter because they establish the formal structure of the job. But work also contains an informal structure. People have different levels of influence, organizations reward certain behaviors more than others, and important information frequently moves through relationships that do not appear on an organizational chart. Understanding that structure can matter almost as much as mastering the job itself. Understand What Makes the Work Valuable A job description usually describes activities. Those activities exist because the organization expects them to produce some u...

How can you be a scientist of yourself? Turn your life into a living lab without turning yourself into a project. Framing the Question To be a  scientist of yourself  is to study your own life with curiosity instead of judgment, using experiments instead of guesses. Rather than asking “What’s wrong with me?”, you ask “What’s actually happening, and what happens if I change one thing at a time?” This mindset helps you turn vague self-improvement goals into testable hypotheses about your habits, energy, focus, and emotions. In this post, you’ll learn how to treat your days like a simple, sustainable experiment so you can make smarter changes, not louder resolutions.  It’s about designing tiny tests, collecting just enough data, and using what you learn to iterate on your life—like a kinder, more curious version of R&D for your well-being. The scientist-of-you mindset Before tools and trackers, being a scientist of yourself is a way of  seeing . A scientist doesn’t ...