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AI and PowerPoint: Why Your Next Presentation Might Take Minutes, Not Days
If you have a primarily desk-based job, then you likely spend roughly a fifth of your working week on presentations. That’s an entire day gone to slide creation. And nearly half of that time isn’t spent on thinking or analysis, but on design, aligning boxes, fixing fonts, wrestling with layouts. If you’ve ever stayed up […]
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EP012 How To Build Self-Confidence
In this podcast episode, I’m reading Chapter 3 of Stewart Cotterill’s The Psychology of Performance and discussing the difference between self-confidence and self-efficacy. Throughout this reading, I interrupt the narrative to offer my own input, clarity on certain aspects, and tips and advice on how to build up your sense of efficacy.
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Dual Process Thinking In Peak Performance
Dual-process thinking is a fundamental concept that explains how our minds process information and make decisions through two distinct systems. Understanding this concept of mind can help us develop the mental skills required for peak performance. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman proposed it in his groundbreaking work “Thinking, Fast and Slow.” This influential theory reveals the […]
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The AI Bubble And What It Means for The Workplace
When Softbank sells its entire Nvidia holding (Silicon Republic, 2025), JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon warns that tech stocks are overheated, and Jeff Bozo admits there’s an AI bubble, perhaps we should pay attention. That said, Big Tech firms are collectively spending nearly $400 billion on AI infrastructure this year alone (NPR, 2025), 30% of European […]
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Psychological Time: How We Create Our Own Reality
Psychological time is the subjective experience of past, present, and future that shapes how we perceive ourselves and our possibilities—yet it is not a window onto objective reality but rather a construction of human consciousness. Practically everyone you know carries this invisible architecture. Regardless of their circumstances, this experience contains at its base an unexamined […]