255: Minimizing Avoidable Failures with Russell Klusas
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 28 January 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Tradecraft founder Russ Klusas discusses optimal decision-making amid life goals, recognizing avoidable failures, and learning from the successes and failures of Silicon Valley.
You’ll Learn:
1) How to understand and use bounded rationality
2) How to identify avoidable failures
3) The good and the bad from Silicon Valley
About Russ
Russell Klusas is the Founder of Tradecraft, a full time, in-person immersive training program for people who want to work in startups. He was also previously the CEO of Big Lobby, and the Entrepreneur-in-Residence of Founder Institute. He attended the University of Illinois.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Russ’ Company: Tradecraft
- Book: Seeking Wisdom from Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin
- Book: The Minto Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto
- Term: Bounded Rationality by Herbert Simon
- Cognitive Bias cheatsheet
- Previous Episode: 127: Making Better Decisions with Matt Bodnar
- Product: Microsoft Surface Studio
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McChitis. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 255 with Russ |
| 0:25.5 | Kluzis. I think you're really going to love this conversation with Russ. Russ has |
| 0:29.8 | been a buddy of mine. I have known for over a decade now and he always has some |
| 0:37.4 | thought-provoking intriguing things to share when I'm talking to him and now |
| 0:41.0 | we recorded one so I think you'll be enriched in numerous |
| 0:44.4 | ways including one how to understand and use the concept of bounded rationality |
| 0:49.4 | to how to identify avoidable failures and 3. |
| 0:53.2 | The good and bad from Silicon Valley. |
| 0:55.3 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcripts or the links to items that we've |
| 0:58.7 | referenced, that's all over at awesome at your job.com slash F255. |
| 1:03.7 | And while you're at awesome at your job |
| 1:05.5 | dot com, I hope you check out some of our cool stuff. |
| 1:07.7 | One thing I'll point you to is simply the magnifying glass. |
| 1:10.3 | We'd have over 250 conversations now so their odds are good we may have |
| 1:14.9 | covered an issue relevant to you so you can click that and readily search every |
| 1:19.4 | one of those conversations because it's all transcribed so that that's pretty handy. Get right to the |
| 1:24.4 | stuff you need in the moment or a summon back to your recall something you've heard |
| 1:29.4 | long ago that needs to get refreshed. Now here is Russ's story. |
| 1:34.0 | Russell Kalusis is the founder of Trade Craft, |
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