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Thinking in Bets

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Tracking VC investment decisions — recording what she liked/disliked about each company and the reasoning behind yes/no decisions, then reviewing to improve future decision-making

"Annie Duke inspired this — I create, she wrote this book Thinking in Bets — a pre-mortem. So every time I meet with a company and I dig in on it a little bit, I write to myself what I liked, what I didn't like, what the deal would have been, and if I got ye..."

Sarah Tavel

Countering catastrophizing fears of failure

"We've talked about the exercise of negative visualization, the Stoic practice of actually writing out the worst-case scenario and how you would handle it, because that exercise is so useful. What you realize when you actually start writing it out is, oh, I'..."

Mark Manson

Mapping potential failure points before starting a project or quarterly initiative

"One of them is the premortem, which is a practice where you sit down before you start working on a new goal or new project... and you write out: if this is to fail, what will have caused it? ...Once you've mapped out all of the potential failure points, tha..."

Mark Manson