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Unfair Advantage (2020)

This book is mentioned in Redeeming Productivity (2022) ch. 7.

Core Idea

  • Observation: We often lament that others have an unfair advantage.
  • This book advocates that instead of jealously focusing on the unfair advantage that others have over us, we should instead focus on the unfair advantages[1] that we have.

Footnotes

  1. i.e. strengths and competencies↩︎

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