Circus elephant teaches about meetings. Do what you want. Nothing goes viral by accident.

One “must” for this week: Circus elephant teaches about meetings

Why unproductive meetings persist? We don’t “have to”, but we accept them like the circus elephant who was chained when it was a baby, and has learned the hopelessness, out of habit and fear.

Kate encourages us to get back our time: we can decline if the same information is available elsewhere, propose alternatives (join fewer or delegate), and have conversations to combine or cut meetings. And I’d add that we can also ask to record the meeting and then check the notes later 😉

We are much more in control than we think.

Personal development

• Do what you want

• Dear parker: a letter to a 17-Year-Old reader

• Experimenting with emotions

• Getting a foot in the door

• The art of procrastination

• The empty cup mindset

• The human energy crisis

• The self-help trap: what 20+ years of “Optimizing” has taught me

Innovation

• Nothing goes viral by accident

• Agents over bubbles

• Convergence

• Exploit vs explore

• The brand age

• The infinite game: what artists know that founders don’t

• What happens when you actually listen to customers

• Why you should validate before building

Leadership and management

• Circus elephant teaches about meetings

• Five ways leaders can facilitate better conversations

• Flat organizational structure: what it actually looks like (and why it works)

• How to build a superteam that keeps getting better

• Learning from error, or punishing it?

• The 5 types of bullshit job

• What authentic leadership looks like under pressure

• What companies can learn from their biggest fans

One book

“Beyond Belief: The Science-Backed Way to Stop Limiting Yourself and Achieve Breakthrough Results” by Nir Eyal.