The Science Behind Clear Writing: Techniques and Practices When Notes Fly A guide to the science and practice of clear writing, opening with Hemingway's point that clarity comes through revision, not the first draft. It covers the economic argument for clarity, the science… EBEmir Baycan
Resume Strategies for Securing Interviews When Notes Fly A guide to writing a resume that generates interviews by designing for each stage of the evaluation pipeline. It covers getting past ATS parsing (formatting rules, keyword matching, and the dual huma… EBEmir Baycan
Thinking About Risk: A Practical Framework Explained When Notes Fly A practical framework for thinking about risk, defined as exposure to probabilistically varying outcomes with two components, probability and magnitude, and distinguished from danger, uncertainty, an… EBEmir Baycan
Running Agile Retrospectives for Continuous Improvement When Notes Fly A guide to running agile retrospectives that actually produce change, opening with the observation that most teams meet, list things, write action items, and improve nothing. It covers what retrospec… EBEmir Baycan
How to Read People When Notes Fly An evidence-based examination of how to read people, opening with Paul Ekman's cross-cultural facial-expression research in Papua New Guinea and the popular genre it spawned. It weighs what the repli… EBEmir Baycan
Protecting Your Online Privacy: Effective Methods When Notes Fly A practical guide to protecting your privacy online, opening with journalist Kashmir Hill's experiment blocking the five big tech companies and discovering how deeply their infrastructure is embedded… MSMelik Can Sariyer
How to Negotiate a Higher Salary When Notes Fly An evidence-based guide to negotiating a higher salary, noting that few people are taught to do it and the compounded career cost of accepting first offers can reach hundreds of thousands of dollars.… EBEmir Baycan
Managing Anxiety: Evidence-Based Strategies and Insights When Notes Fly An evidence-based guide to managing anxiety, opening with Joseph Wolpe's 1950s exposure treatment of a cat phobia. It defines anxiety management and the neuroscience of the anxiety response, then rev… EBEmir Baycan
Making Memorable Presentations That Stick When Notes Fly A guide to giving memorable presentations, built on the finding (from Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve) that audiences forget about half of a talk within a day, so presentations must be designed for mem… EBEmir Baycan
Conducting Effective Performance Reviews: Best Practices When Notes Fly A research-backed guide to conducting effective performance reviews, examining the large gap between how reviews are typically run and what organizational psychology says works. It covers why annual… EBEmir Baycan