Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe
Lenny's Podcast episode, sponsored by Eppo, Explo and Webflow, in which Lenny Rachitsky talks with Evan LaPointe, founder of CORE Sciences and the analytics product Satellite acquired by Adobe, about using how the brain actually works to improve strategy, influence and decision-making. LaPointe's core image is the college campus: your brain has a history department for looking up what you know, a science department for open-minded experimentation and an art department for boundless creativity - and because the brain is built to conserve energy, most people rely on the history department way too much, the lowest-energy way to answer anything, when routing the same question to the other departments gets dramatically better answers. On influence, he says choose your character like a video game and find the style that fits your personality, and on teams he offers the sharpest question in the episode: not how good am I at my job, but what kind of experience am I - because if you are a miserable experience, nothing else matters until you fix it. PARTIAL COVERAGE: this summary highlights the framework; the deeper systems are not covered. These are LaPointe's own views, not independently verified.
