Did you know that ending an email with "Thanks in advance" gets you the best response rate of any closing phrase? It has a 38% high response rate than the average email in a study done by Boomerang on 350,000 emails. This week I skimmed a bunch of productivity articles to find anything new, and… Continue reading What I read this week – 34th week 2020
This has been a good week for reading and learning, and is the first week that I'm not writing this from a plane or train, so the summary will be a bit longer. I speak about a new report showing CEOs aren't properly payed, the future of consulting, black creators on TikTok and YouTube, and… Continue reading What I read this week – 33rd week 2020
This week has been busy reading for launch of the vegan brownies at Nom Nom Not Dairy. Through experience I've learnt a lot about the need for attention to detail and how there will always be something that goes wrong. Part of that understanding came from a chapter of a book called Read the Sequences… Continue reading What I read this week – 32nd week 2020
This week I've written about what I've learnt in the past month of running Nom Nom Not Dairy, which covers micromanagement, goal-setting and continuous learning. I've been busy moving from Switzerland to the UK this week, and have spent quality time with friends, so my reading hasn't been extensive, but it has been interesting. Relativity… Continue reading What I read this week – 31st week 2020
This week I've been reading plenty of interesting content from many sources. I've gotten into reading some philosophy again, along with reading Competition Demystified, and getting nomnomnotdairy.com up and running. This week I sum up reading about capitalism, TikTok, meaning, the anthropic principle, France, and where I think Competition Demystified went wrong. What I read… Continue reading What I read this week – 30th week 2020
Another busy week at Nom Nom Not Dairy. This week I've been working on contract batch manufacturing - where a factory produces a fixed quantity of product for you on a specific date. These companies have very flexible manufacturing lines, and have a higher cost per unit than a continuous production line because they have… Continue reading What I read this week – 29th week 2020
This week has been rather hectic. I haven't read as much as I normally would like to, though I am still working my way through Competition Demystified and The Copywriter's Handbook. You can read about why I've been so busy this week here (and see what's come out of it here). If you have any… Continue reading What I learnt this week – 28th week 2020
As I return from my week off, I'm creating a syllabus for myself for the summer. I'm planning on learning finance from EdX's Corporate Finance course, Excel modelling from Skillshare (sign-up for 2 free months here), and Corporate strategy by reading Competition Demystified. If you have learnt or taught yourself any of these skills, then… Continue reading What I learnt this week – 27th week 2020
This weeks what I read is a bit shorter than normal, as I'm hiking in Interlaken with my girlfriend to celebrate my end of exams. What I read This week I have read and thought about the need for an understanding of nuance and an understanding of balance in the press. The first article is… Continue reading What I learnt this week – 26th week 2020
What I read This week I read 49 articles, quite a lot of them from the Harvard Business Review. The most interesting themes are about One-on-Ones, how sexual harrassment is managed in the workplace, speaking, and writing. One on Ones Two medium posts, one from the perspective of a manager, and one from the perspective… Continue reading What I learnt this week – 25th week 2020
Callum Macdonald 