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One “must” for this week: The work required to have an opinion

In this week’s curation newsletter: a reflection on how easy it is to have an opinion, and how much work it takes to “earn” having one.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.— Charlie Munger

When we are dealing with strongly opinionated people, we can ask them to write down their reasoning. Most won’t bother, and will reveal a lot by doing so. And those who do will be willing to expose their thinking to scrutiny, and fuzzy logic has nowhere to hide on paper.

Personal development

• The work required to have an opinion

• How old will you be if you don’t?

• How to be a digital minimalist in 2026

• How to find the hidden beliefs holding you back

• How to learn creative skills

• Moral psychology is relationship regulation

• Ness letters: making friends with error

• Why Messi barely runs

Innovation

• Who’s afraid of chinese models?

• AI and the paperclip problem

• An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

• It’s the complexity, stupid!

• Software factories, light and dark

• Sputnik AI moment

• The post-Agentic founder

• The psychology behind “Going viral”

Leadership and management

• The companies firing fastest will die first

• Can leaders count on self-organisation?

• Defensible, but not good

• Designing minds

• From hierarchy to intelligence

• Great leaders know which emotions their feedback will Trigger

• How the best teams become indistractable

• The office amenity that actually improves teamwork

One book

“Think again: the power of knowing what you don’t know” by Adam Grant.