Save 60 hours every year, Amazon bought iRobot to see inside your home, is bossware coming?

Welcome to the 18th issue of the newsletter, “Journal of discoveries.” Each week, I check a list of hundreds of sources of inspiration to spot interesting articles, videos, podcasts, and books on personal development, leadership, management, technology, and innovation.

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Here is a selection of what grabbed my attention this week.

Personal development

Uses of randomness. How to manage stress before it manages you. How to argue, better. Evaluating information: find the signal in the noise. The critical startup skills you might be overlooking — and how to bring them into focus. How to become an expert in something new. Phone charger challenge: save 60 hours every year. How to become insanely well-connected.

Innovation

It takes a village: how intrapreneurs can work with key functions to drive innovation. The number 1 growth killer is leadership debt. Deepfake epidemic is looming—and adobe is preparing for the worst. Our world in data. Competing on analytics. How to design a referral program. How to kickstart and scale a consumer business, step 5: retain: iterate until enough people stick around. Is your company squandering digital opportunities?. Amazon bought iRobot to see inside your home.

Leadership and management

Elon musk says remote workers are just pretending to work. turns out he’s (sort of) right. Fifteen common decision-making methods. Management with intent. Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software you might not realize is watching you. Women aren’t promoted because managers underestimate their potential. Humanizing leadership: principles, practices, and people. How to get your team on board with a major change. Radical candor: the surprising secret to being a good boss.

Books

“Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works” by A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin

Twitter lists

Here are the Twitter lists from which I get most of the ideas and inspirations. Please note that the categorization is, of course, quite subjective.

• Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Management and Leadership
• Visual Ideas
• Personal development

I also share on Twitter and Instagram visual illustrations about personal development, management, leadership, and innovation.