Abel Prasad’s Blog — Life, Business & Wellbeing
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The best managed team you'll ever encounter has one distinctive quality: it functions brilliantly even when the manager is gone. That's not luck — it's the deliberate result of how the team was built...
A penny doubled every day for 30 days is worth over £5 million. At day 15 it's worth £163. That flat, underwhelming middle section is where most people quit — and it's exactly where the work is. This...
Almost no bad manager thinks they are one. The truly awful ones are easy to spot — it's the well-intentioned ones running a handful of subtle habits that do the real damage. This post names six of...
Somewhere in your organisation right now, eight intelligent adults are sitting in a room watching a presentation they could have read in four minutes. This is called a meeting. It is considered...
Stoicism starts clicking and suddenly you want to tell everyone about it. Don't. The Stoics themselves would have found that embarrassing. This final post covers what to actually keep from the...
Knowing good ideas isn't enough — the Stoics were clear about that. So they built practices. Concrete, repeatable daily exercises for the mind, as deliberate as any physical workout. This post covers...
Stoicism has a reputation problem. It conjures images of stiff-upper-lip stoics refusing to feel anything — which is almost entirely wrong. The real philosophy is warmer, stranger, and far more...
Awareness of cognitive bias is necessary. It is nowhere near sufficient. This final post in the Everyday Economics Series skips the vague advice and gets specific — five practical tools that build...
You knew it was a bad film forty minutes in. You watched it anyway. That's the sunk cost fallacy — the bias that makes past investment feel like a reason to keep going, even when every honest signal...