Craft Of Charisma

Guest Introduction: Juvoni Beckford is a senior software engineer, UI/UX designer, fitness enthusiast, and voracious reader, based in New York City. He writes about developing and acquiring habits, systems, and tools for a disciplined approach to life-long learning and self-improvement. He curates books, technologies, mental models, mindsets and cognitive biases for smarter and more self-aware living, and shares this on his blog, juvoni.com. Interview Summary: In this interview, Juvoni starts by talking about his background, why he started his blog, and what he writes about. He goes on to discuss his reading habits, including how many books he reads on a regular basis, and the note-taking system he developed to organize and remember more information. We ask Juvoni to share some of his favorite genres and authors, as well as books he's read recently that stood out to him. Chris and Juvoni then shift to the topic of group-think, and discuss how the news and social media have negatively affected their emotion