Wes Kao's Newsletter

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How to fix limbo writing

Take 3 minutes to delete these words and improve your writing forever

Everything takes longer than you think

Leaders, stop accidentally scaring your team

When too much CYA backfires

Good struggle vs bad struggle

People judge the average of your achievements, not the cumulative

What you give airtime to will expand

Why high performers make assertions: The difference between insights, suggestions, and assertions

You are wasting your warm intros

7 Phrases I use to make giving feedback easier for myself

My new episode on Lenny's Podcast

Part II: Nuances when using the "inverted but" technique

Use "but" strategically

Why you should get buy-in throughout a project

The only way to stop the rat race

Be objective, not detached

The trouble with "good enough"

Develop adjacent skills to become a sharper operator

Eyes light up (ELU)

Stop apologizing for reasonable business decisions

Picking your battles when you are hyper-rational

No, I don't want to hop on a call

How I give high-quality feedback quickly

“Looks good to me” is a lazy default: Why managers should give feedback on work output

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