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Shane Snow: Jan 10, 2023 4:54:38 PM
Some time ago, a friend and I were talking about becoming better writers by looking at the “reading levels” of our work. Scholars have formulas for automatically estimating reading level using syllables, sentence length, and other proxies for...
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Shane Snow: Jan 10, 2023 4:51:58 PM
AFEW YEARS AGO I found myself in a rather dark place. The bottom had dropped out from under me in several areas of my life. It started...
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Shane Snow: Jan 10, 2023 4:49:58 PM
This treatise on productive brainstorming—or rather, alternatives to it—is based on dozens of scientific studies and voluminous...
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Shane Snow: Jan 10, 2023 4:46:10 PM
How to debate and make progress by curbing Intellectual Dishonesty Discourse and debate are more effective in both democracy and business when...
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Shane Snow: Jan 10, 2023 4:35:33 PM
Intellectual Humility: A Timeless Virtue Intellectual Humility is one of the most exciting fields of study in current psychology and philosophy....
Shane Snow: Jan 10, 2023 2:13:00 PM
Part 5 of my Lateral Thinking explainer series is about doing what most people jump straight to in Step 1 of a typical problem-solving process:...
Shane Snow: Jan 9, 2023 2:16:00 PM
Part 6 of my Thinking Different explainer series digs into how to run your ideas through the gauntlet, so you can make sure you're coming to strong...
Shane Snow: Jan 8, 2023 2:20:00 PM
The Importance Of Being Multi-Disciplined The conclusion of my Lateral Thinking explainer series. In this episode we explore how to diversify our...
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Shane Snow: Dec 31, 2021 8:06:09 PM
Note from Shane: In my book Dream Teams I discuss how to harness the conflict between people with different ideas—and how debate is better for...
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Shane Snow: Dec 31, 2021 7:50:54 PM
WHY YOU SHOULD HIRE PEOPLE THAT ADD TO YOUR CULTURE, NOT FIT IT
