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BooksWhy we have to keep learningAs information and automation replace many mid-skill jobs, the new roles split into high-skill work such as engineering, programming, management, and design, or low-skill work such as retail, cleaning, and customer service.
BooksThe five stages of talent. Which one are you?At work you meet all kinds of people. When you choose teammates or hire someone new, what standard should you use? I also wanted to know which stage I was in. Kim Young-jin's book Everyone's Business lays this out clearly, so I want to share it.
BooksYou read a book with your bodyI found Lee Ha-young on YouTube. I wanted to borrow some of the way she lives and thinks, so I bought her book. In the chapter 'You read a book with your body,' she asks you to read for about 30 minutes, close the book, and write. So I am writing this.
BooksThe book extreme T types need most? Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleI should admit this first. I am an extreme T — Think, in MBTI terms. Being a T does not automatically make relationships hard, but I judge most things by efficiency and logic, so even everyday conversation is hard to meet with empathy.
BooksWhy the forty I imagined is not the forty I am living: Future Self, Benjamin HardyIt has been about three months since I read Future Self. I applied to Thinkubation for the new year of 2024, was lucky enough to get in, and already feel happy starting the year in a group like that. Thinkubation reads one book every two weeks, four books in total, with reviews and discussion. The first book is Future Self.