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Today’s Clever is Tomorrow’s Cringe
Imagine you’re at dinner with some friends. Someone makes a joke, it lands, people laugh, all’s well and good. Ten minutes later, the aspiring comedian …
Symbols Beat Slogans
Have you seen the LEGO Formula 1 car? Not the $30 set. The actual, functioning F1 car, driven by actual F1 drivers, built with actual …
An Ode To Giving Up
Pop quiz: What’s Viagra? What are Post-it notes? What is Slack? If you answered “a medically induced erection, little slips of paper you can stick …
How to Survive Your Own Death
Marcus Aurelius. Charlemagne. Suleiman the Magnificent. Peter the Great. History calls them great, but they all ultimately failed. Not in the ruling part. The leaving …
Culture Bank: Insufficient Funds
In the early 2000s, one of the top-ten largest companies in America had the following words carved in marble in their office lobby: “Integrity. Communication. …
The Problem With Good Intentions
Most school kids will inevitably ask their English teacher, why do we have to read Shakespeare? For the answer, we turn to one of Shakespeare’s …
The ROI Of Fireworks
There’s a reason nobody likes fireworks: They’re expensive. The show only lasts about fifteen minutes. They literally go up in smoke. They wake the baby. …
How To Win The Blame Game
Legend has it, it was once commonplace for American poker players to use buckhorn-handled knives to keep track of whose turn it was to deal …
The Minotaur Was Never The Problem
In traditional Greek myth, King Minos of Crete kept a bull he had promised to sacrifice to Poseidon. The god punished his audacity by making …
History Doesn’t Use Cruise Control
In Ireland, around 1880, the harvest wasn’t doing so well. To appease his tenant farmers, Lord Erne offered a 10% rent reduction. They countered with …
Why People Really, Really Like Using The Word, “Transformation”
Before AI came into our lives and 75% of all LinkedIn posts became all about it, 75% of all LinkedIn posts were about “Digital Transformation.” …
Don’t Be ‘Normal Spongebob’
In the brilliant and highly esteemed television program “SpongeBob SquarePants,” we get a thrilling glimpse into the lives of a cadre of charming oceanic critters. …
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