You got promoted
Hello, my dear reader, today I feel very powerful. So I have decided to promote you to the position of CEO. Congratulations. You are a real CEO now. Not later! Now! What do I mean by that? In this information age,…
Category: Tacomob Hacks brief tips and snippets of useful life hacks that can serve you as decision shortcuts
I, your employee say, “my level of engagement is the effect of a great employee experience, but ….”
Do you feel engaged at your work? This is somehow an off-pattern post here on TACOMOB. But it totally fits into the context of Taking Care of Your Own Business – your own business of earning money by working for…
TACOMOB does include this too …
Does your work rock? Does your work sometimes feel like this? Recognition is the fuel that keeps us going. Do you feel you are being recognized enough for what you are doing for the company by your bosses? What…
Why do you try to avoid pain so often?
Do you use Alipay, payWave, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay or boring NETS or even Credit Cards to part with your money? Then for you making payments might hurt less than it should. The pain of paying may be the…
Did you misremember that correctly?
Would you have a few minutes for some slightly deeper thoughts? Do you trust your memory? Your memories are unreliable and often flat-out wrong, especially when it comes to remembering how you felt at a certain time or place.…
Are you paying attention?
To what? – you might ask. To whatever you are somewhat interested in. We are masters in paying zero attention to what we are not interested in. All thanks to our inborn or learned biases. Regular readers of Tacomob are…
Ponder-worthy stuff I read last week
The best way to talk to people about money … is keeping the phrases, “What do you want to do?” or “Whatever works for you,” loaded and ready to fire. You can explain to other people the history of what…
Working to Live or Living to Work?
How was your weekend? Was it full of memorable moments? How many days of annual leave do you have left carried over from 2017? What kind of experiences are you going to exchange them for? Need some encouragement? Have a…
Are you ‘kiasu’ enough on being lazy?
There are many merits of being lazy. Come on, don’t be lazy, be a bit kiasu* and read on. Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is combined with intelligent thought and high ambition. For example, lazy…
The speed you walk at determines your intelligence …
… in other people’s minds. The timescale bias is quite a profound thing with serious implications. Ever noticed that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster than you is a maniac?—George Carlin That is timescale…
brief tips and snippets of useful life hacks that can serve you as decision shortcuts
I, your employee say, “my level of engagement is the effect of a great employee experience, but ….”
Do you feel engaged at your work? This is somehow an off-pattern post here on TACOMOB. But it totally fits into the context of Taking Care of Your Own Business – your own business of earning money by working for…
TACOMOB does include this too …
Does your work rock? Does your work sometimes feel like this? Recognition is the fuel that keeps us going. Do you feel you are being recognized enough for what you are doing for the company by your bosses? What…
Why do you try to avoid pain so often?
Do you use Alipay, payWave, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay or boring NETS or even Credit Cards to part with your money? Then for you making payments might hurt less than it should. The pain of paying may be the…
Did you misremember that correctly?
Would you have a few minutes for some slightly deeper thoughts? Do you trust your memory? Your memories are unreliable and often flat-out wrong, especially when it comes to remembering how you felt at a certain time or place.…
Are you paying attention?
To what? – you might ask. To whatever you are somewhat interested in. We are masters in paying zero attention to what we are not interested in. All thanks to our inborn or learned biases. Regular readers of Tacomob are…
Ponder-worthy stuff I read last week
The best way to talk to people about money … is keeping the phrases, “What do you want to do?” or “Whatever works for you,” loaded and ready to fire. You can explain to other people the history of what…
Working to Live or Living to Work?
How was your weekend? Was it full of memorable moments? How many days of annual leave do you have left carried over from 2017? What kind of experiences are you going to exchange them for? Need some encouragement? Have a…
Are you ‘kiasu’ enough on being lazy?
There are many merits of being lazy. Come on, don’t be lazy, be a bit kiasu* and read on. Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is combined with intelligent thought and high ambition. For example, lazy…
The speed you walk at determines your intelligence …
… in other people’s minds. The timescale bias is quite a profound thing with serious implications. Ever noticed that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster than you is a maniac?—George Carlin That is timescale…