Our old buddy Mike Arrington (founder of Techcrunch, among other things), made a lovely point on Twitter: “One of the first lessons I learned in Silicon …

“Hell Or High Water” was said to be one of the best movies of 2016. It got 4 Oscar nominations, at the very least. The story …

A big part of helping companies is to make their work more meaningful, both to their employees and to their customers. This makes total sense. People …

  First lesson in Economics 101: everything is scarce. But is it, really? Because the global economy, today, is less about guns and butter than …

  Our friends, Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan have a new book coming out soon, and it reminded us of something that  Matt Mullenweg, the CEO, and founder of Automattic (the parent …

  The stories of how university life has changed are reported in the news daily. We read stories of students being expelled, for congregating, partying, and being kids. The …

  Two generations ago, we started to outsource child-rearing, so both parents could be breadwinners. Which worked well. Until it didn’t. So now families by their …

  From the 2009 bestseller, “Ignore Everybody”: Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take …

  There’s an old Chinese folk tale about two monks. They come to a poor village to beg for food, but no-one has any to …

  A favorite story of ours is about the original Olympic Games, in Ancient Greece. If you won an event, unlike today, you didn’t get …

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”. What Hemingway wrote about one of …

The technology business is very much like the movie business: For all the very smart people working in it, the reality is, to quote William Goldman, …