How to…
- pitch your startup
- not worry about UPFs
- travel
- travel like Anthony Bourdain
- appreciate the difference between privacy and secrecy
- not have your heart broken
- understand why Coke at McDos tastes so good
- manage people with respect
- explain why you’re leaving Substack
- explain why your university isn’t taking a position
- see what happens inside an Amazon warehouse
- understand Elon Musk
- record a podcast
- be productive
- defend an urban battleground
- find the grave of JB Say
- download pretty much any book for free
- rewild your attention
- do good video calls
- infiltrate an organisation and make it dysfunctional
- defend your choice, as a law professor, to wear a Black Lives Matter t-shirt on campus
- identify white supremacy within an organisation
- justify buying cheap wine
- increase your knowledge with 40 powerful concepts
- defend established print media against people who read something on social media
- make a Bar Chart Race
- tell the time in Silicon valley
- write a concerned memo
- write like an Amazonian
- learn how to code
- survive visiting New York
- hang a picture
- queue
- ask a favour
- start a start up
- fail a PhD
- make your tables less terrible
- do public speaking if you’re an academic
- justify playing mobile games
- take Cornell notes
- choose a restaurant
- apologize properly
- do uni
- worry about “first world problems”
- defend the importance of experts in public debate
- create a poster
- escape from a sinking car
- fight totalitarianism
- push back against Higher Ed time diaries
- start running
- offer condolences
- write a CV
- survive falling through ice (video)
- explain costs to customers that only see you as a middleman
- stop making your life more difficult than it needs to be
- improve productivity
- enjoy winter
- explain why you don’t answer your phone
- be a contrarian
- increase your Klout
- understand code
- combat latent sexism
- prepare for a live interview
- respond to requests for your time
- raise an 8 year old
- explain why you’ve banned laptops
- parent your children at college
- conduct yourself
- pack shirts
- have a standing desk
- spot lies in emails
- have a happy life
- not feel busy
- remember the difference between Type I and Type II errors
- use “alone time”
- chair a department
- edit a journal
- use a checklist
- cite reprints
- leave a social event
- find the location of a publisher
- publish scientific comment
- work with tech non-savvy
- write letters
- respond to language pedants
- nap
- speak
- video a talk
- write less badly
- write like The Economist
- improve grammar
- write like Thomas Sowell
- be an academic
- prepare for a guest speaker
- have a baseline level of decorum
- email your Professor
- teach through writing
- pursue joint enquiry
- respond to accusations of being a hired gun
- respond to the public’s expectations of economists
- sign off emails
- write an obituary
- design a brand
- take control of email
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