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Why Being Called Worthless Can Change Everything
What does it take to change your life? Sometimes, not all that much. As our old friend, Brian Solis, writes in his new book, “Mindshift, …
The Secret Ingredient? It’s Not the Food
After half a century working there, Joe Holtz, the director of Brooklyn’s Park Slope Co-op, one of the oldest food co-ops in the country is …
A Use It or Lose It Species
US President, Richard Nixon, said it well: “To me, the unhappiest people of the world are those in the watering places… going to parties every …
Gen Z Isn’t the Problem
We hear a lot about “Gen Z taking over the office” these days. WSJ and other outlets tell us they want meaning, mentorship, and matcha …
How Outrageous Ideas Change the World (for better or worse)
What’s the most memorable line from the Harris-Trump debate? “They’re eating the dogs.” This bizarre claim born from a single regretted social media post, spread …
They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work
From the creation of the Soviet Union in 1917 until its dissolution in 1991, Pravda, its largest newspaper, was the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist …
Elves are Overrated
In JRR Tolkien’s “Lord Of The Rings”, the Elves seemed to have it made. Tolkien’s Elves weren’t like the old Celtic Faeries- little mischievous creatures …
Corruption is Contagious
What do New York Mayor, Eric Adams, and Sean Combs aka Puff Diddy have in common? They’ve allegedly fallen into what we call “The Croesus …
In Defense of Red Tape
One of the hardest questions in business is how to scale. The great startup VC, Paul Graham, talks about this in one of his essays, …
Culture is Purpose Not Place
The big news in remote working this month was the memo Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, sent out last week mandating that all employees return to …
How to Live Through Civilizational Collapse and Still Have Nice Things
The title of this piece is basically the subtext of a growing trend reported in a recent WSJ article, “America Pulls Back From Values That …
What’s Your If-Then Loop?
Our old friend Seth Godin has a great definition of organizational culture: “People like us do things like this.” It’s simple and yet captures how …
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