Please formulate 10 SMART goals, each based on the following reading list. These are 10 books, you have 20 working days.

For each book write an email to Marek every 2 days scheduled for 5 30 pm with a short paragraph about your thoughts on each of the readings below. (Don’t worry about this high frequency of emails, this is part of the design of the task to make you comfortable sending emails often and see it as part of normal operation at NQS. Marek will review with you the emails, checking for clarity of thought, next action indentification, etc. with the aim to show that even very frequent emails as long as they had a bit thought in them are way better than scrolling through slop on an instant messaging chat. Morever keep in mind that your thoughts on the subjects below is still likely more interesting content than some of the noise we receive in our mailbox which means it might still be a welcome human signal. Potentially, you will cc other NQS members as you go and they could join and read on the way home and maybe react, you will get to know more about your peers, we all will learn potentially useful ideas.)

In parallel, you will be reading 10 research papers and NTU will require you to do other elearning courses.

Here are the subjects: 1. Following through. Ask Gemini about the book by Hollins and why completion is the only metric of success. 2. Thinking in bets. Ask Gemini about the book by Duke and why we separate the quality of the decision from the quality of the outcome. 3. Self-awareness. Ask Gemini about the book from HBR and and to help you flag your “blind spots” before they become bottlenecks. 4. Ownership:Ask Gemini about the book by Marquet and why communicating in form of ‘I intend…’ allows to operate nuclear submarines without ever giving orders or that you own the decision; Marek just provides the “clearance.” 5. No asshole rule: Ask Gemini about the book by Sutton and consider how come we might waste our lives ruminating over difficult people while instead we could be nourished by wonderful people that otherwise we don’t spend enough time with. 6. Atomic habits. Ask Gemini about the book by Clear and why you have the potential to easily unlock your potential by focusing on systems that make high-utility output your automated default. 7. High performance habits. Ask Gemini about the book by Burchard and why being at NQS means you are a high performer and why you should be alarmed about losing it if you don’t take urgent proactive action now. 8. Writing: Ask Gemini about the book by Zinsser and why you need to learn to write well. 9. Reading: Ask Gemini about the book by Adler and why you should learn how to read a book. 10. Mastery: Ask Gemini about the book by Greene and let it guide you through you progress on Greene’s stages of reaching mastery.

For very new NQS members, you are welcome to stage even minor pull requests to this website to help add links to Gemini chats or possible prompts or thoughts.