The Warrior Poet

When do stretch goals make sense? Staying humble with Kendrick Lamar and Tiny Meat Gang. Also: newborns, vanity metrics.

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notes

• More on how scammy Kickstarter stretch goals are (Medium)
• Also on Kickst…

Sri introduces the "No-Future-Selves Fallacy," a tendency to overplan, with the help of British-American duo the Kills.


notes

• 'Future Starts Slow' by the Kills (official video on Youtube)
• Chill cover of…

Are you the 'angel of nuance' in your organization? Sri uses this loved and detested character from the Dan Le Batard Show on ESPN to inform the leader's approach to communicating strategy and solvin…

Sri questions whether you could be living a skinny-fat life. How would you know?

Val Kilmer helps us think about cheat days.

PS. "Skinny fat" is weakness masquerading as fitness.


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notes

Thanks to gu…

Do you have trouble making sense of the Matrix? What if you approached everyone around you as if they were a computer player in the video game of life? Sri and System of a Down illuminate this and ot…

Humans respond to imperfectly humanlike creations with varying degrees of horror, with an "uncanny valley" of human acceptance (i.e. a low point) in the middle of the spectrum of humanness. Roboticis…

You know you do it. You think about what you would've told that person who cut you off. That coworker who showed you up at that meeting. The thousand ways to craft the argument that will vanquish the…

In this second part of Sri's interview with Jay Hack, the two dive deeper on leadership lessons: 

• Dealing with leadership anxiety
• Tips for new leaders
• More on finding mentors 
• When someone is not onboard…

Sri interviews West Point graduate and Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran Jay Hack about leadership based on Jay's four years leading Norwegian industrial workforces. (Jay is also a graduate of Harvard …

Do you have hypergraphia? Sri explores this mental disorder and related states with help from Amazon, Truman Capote, and "the Ballmer number." 

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• Tower of Silence article on Wikipedia (Zoroastrian di…

Sri tries to invent a new word and viddies a bourbon. His "Bizarro Method" helps you get out of a rut.


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notes: 

• Sri’s article on Medium: Intermittent Fasting and the Placebo Effect 
• Origins of Bizarr…

Sri helps you get the most out of your people, applying Friedrich Hayek's concept of "local knowledge" to companies with the help of "that 'copacetic' song." The movie 'American Psycho' is discussed …

Sri uses infectious disease as a metaphor for dealing with colleagues of toxic people. Justin Timberlake and Home Depot do a collaboration.

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Show Notes

• Sexy back-Home Depot mashup
• 'In a World' traile…

Humans have a visceral need to mold their environment, even if it means mindlessly mowing the lawn. Sri introduces the concept of Hobbit problems and wages an internal battle over strongly worded let…

Sri talks about the inability of many organizations to make decisions -- and to stick to them. And also about how annoying metalcore covers of 90s-era protest hits are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Sri has been around the block, so to speak. 

Episode 0 is an aural appetizer where Sri talks about alt-J and gets fired from his first product management job. Meanwhile, a Wall Street saleswoman talk…