Fabulous bureaucracy hacking – Marina Nitze has so many smart clever ways to circumvent red tape. She notes that when it’s bureaucracy it’s often not written down. If it’s not written down then it’s actually easy to change if you find the person who made / makes the decision.
And this video on negotiating basics
Also, kinda (not) shocked that Steve Levitt says
I have adopted the craziest strategy for never finding out whether I’m a good teacher or not, which is I literally have not looked at student evaluations for the last 25 years. I have foregone the value of 25 years of student feedback to protect my fragile ego from the likelihood that I’m really not that good a teacher.
Steve Levitt
And this oldie but goodie, where Tim Harford mentions Improvisation (about 18 minutes in). These are always great stories.
Another Tim Harford about how disaster can be helpful.
