Week 2: Monkey or Pedestal? | Underrated Tri Achievements | Remove your YouTube History and Ads
Follow the “stay on schedule and build on progress” route at your peril. You may reach that rate-limiting step that burns you. This is the essence of building the pedestal while neglecting the monkey you’ve got to train to stand on top.
We might know the harder thing should come first: The bottleneck, the complexity, whatever it is. But it’s often nebulous, undefined, or without precedent. It’s hard to spot.
How to overcome? Get every single stakeholder perspective in the room and ask another group who’s done it before. Can’t find one? Assign a team member to research the complexity and build it into the plan according to precedent.
These quotes capture the essence of the analogy: Humans tend to plug resources towards the more well-defined, predictable, lower risk areas of a problem, initiative, project, product, etc.
"A lot of work, weirdly, goes into the pedestal early on at a lot of companies -- sometimes even at X -- because there's so much pressure to get rewarded for having done a good job. 'Hey, nice pedestal!'" - Astro Teller, Moonshot Captain at X (2017)
“Simply put, there is no point in building pedestals if you can’t solve for the monkey. After all, why build a scale model of a super-sleek, futuristic electric car if you can’t figure out how get its battery to hold a charge long enough for anyone to use it?”
LINKS BELOW: The Monkey Source Trail! From Poker Champ Annie Duke --> X Captain Astro Teller --> Reverse Salients by Thomas P Hughes
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LINKS BELOW: The Monkey Source Trail! From Poker Champ Annie Duke --> X Captain Astro Teller --> Reverse Salients by Thomas P Hughes !!!!
Underrated Achievements: IronMan Tri Style!
“When you’re on your own, cold, wet, miserable, hungry and tired, your mind goes to places you never knew existed and no one, no one, will be around to send you a lifeline. It’s up to you. This is a very important process, and on your return, and often only years later, will you realise how much you grew up.”
Sean Conway started with many dreams, he loved photography, and ate the travel bug big time. But in his 20s, he ended up working corporate gigs and becoming more and more miserable. Then, he let it all go. Now age 43, he began 10 years ago to document his adventures and triumphs, his dreams and his hiccups. Athletic achievements aside, reading about Sean it is an interesting gaze into a less-often seen point of view. It’s good to see the way others see the world, and what they seek to conquer. Are there parallels with your journey?
More Underrated Achievements | News Release on 105th Completed Ironman | Nice editorial piece from The Examiner
Remove Your YouTube - and Google! - History and Ads
Your “History” is used to make video “recommendations” to you, which keeps you tied to the same genres. Break free! Delete your History!
Process:
Sign in to your YouTube account.
Go to the "History" section found on the left sidebar.
Here, you'll see a list of videos you've watched.
You can delete individual videos by clicking on the "X" or "Remove" button next to the video.
To clear all watch history, there's an option saying "Clear All Watch History".
To remove only certain types of recommendations, select and remove videos of that kind.
Want more? Get Google Ads to Stop, and Reset Your Search History
Visit: https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy to walk through the steps
You can stop personalized ads and search results on Google by following these steps:
Go to the Google my account page.
Select "Data & Personalization" in the top left.
Scroll down and find the Ad personalization section.
Click "Go to ad settings".
Click the button to turn ad personalization off.
You can also stop Google ads on your phone by:
Opening your device's Settings.
Tapping "Google".
Tapping "Ads" under the "Services" section.
Shifting the toggle button next to “Opt out of Ads Personalization” to the "Off" position.
You can also disable Google pop-up ads in Chrome by:
Opening Google Chrome.
Clicking the overflow menu (⋮).
Clicking “Settings”.
Clicking “Site settings” located under “Privacy and security”.
Clicking “Pop-ups and redirects”.
Changing the “Allowed” to “Blocked”.
To delete your Google search history, you can:
Open Chrome.
Select Options, the three vertical dots in the top right.
Hover over History in the drop-down menu.
Select History from the list of options.
Click Clear browsing data on the left-hand menu.