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Your Life Isn’t Meant To Be Balanced, It’s Meant to Be Whole
“Severance” is currently one of the hottest shows on television. It centers on Lumon Industries where people volunteer for a job on the “severed floor” …
Stack Your Cues & Win
Want to hear just how irrational you are? (How irrational we ALL are?) It’s a cold, nasty world, and nature plays little tricks on us …
A Tale of Two Cities
There are two major cities in business. The first is called “Care More.” It’s where you get ahead by caring more than the other guy. …
Stop Making Art When You Need Weapons
Tanks teach us a lot. During WWII, Germany and the US had two radically different approaches to tank warfare. Germany built tanks like works of …
It’s What Goes Unsaid That’s Interesting
Ernest Hemingway once won a bet by writing a six-word tragedy: “For sale. Children’s shoes. Never worn.” As always, it’s what goes unsaid that haunts …
What Classic Literature & AI Have in Common
If you’ve ever tried reading an old classic written before the printing press was invented in the 15th Century, say, Homer or Milton, you may …
A Parliament of Whores
“Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.” -PJ O’Rourke. As you probably heard already, NYC …
All for the Want of a Nail
Anthropologist, Margaret Mead, once said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that …
The Door is Not the Problem
Have you ever pushed a door that was supposed to be pulled? Activated the wrong heating pad on the oven? Fumbled with the parking brake …
Your Critics Make You
Have you ever noticed how some of the best ideas come from spite? Take potato chips. As the story goes, they were born from a …
Great Ideas Die. Memes Live Forever
Here’s a fun game: Here are four lines from four famous speeches. “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears…” “Four score and seven years ago …
The Theseus Paradox
It’s called the Theseus Paradox. According to Plutarch, there’s an Ancient Greek story about a 30-oar ship belonging to King Theseus, which by standards of …
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