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Feelings Are Who We Are

Driving a tank in the Second World War was a high-stakes, scary, and dangerous job. So tank crews did what humans tend to do in …

Half In Is All Out

There’s the immutable law of business: whenever a new way of working comes long, albeit from tech or social change, people will try to game …

The Machines Don’t Care

Back in 1949, George Orwell was already predicting algorithmic content In his best-known novel, “1984:” “There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with …

The Cultures that Actually Win

The Amish are a technology-avoiding, mostly agricultural American religious community of German origin, famous for their Barn Raising. Whenever a new barn needs building, instead …

What Leaders Can Learn from Barbie

There is a famous scene in the 2023 movie, “Barbie”, where Gloria (America Ferrera) gives a passionate speech about all the paradoxes of being a …

The Greatest Existential Threat

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon …

Craics in the System

“Crack” is a Gaelic word for a good time. So if you spend any time in Scotland, you’ll repeatedly hear people saying to each other …

The Antidote to Suffering

Over on the Weekend University YouTube Channel, the well-known Yale psychology professor, Paul Bloom talks about suffering, as in, one of Buddha’s famous Four Noble …

Filling in the Narrative Gaps

There was a tweet recently, talking about Ernest Hemingway. To paraphrase: “Agreed, Hemingway was a deeply flawed human being. But so what, you’re a deeply …

Some things never change

As the famous passage in the Bible goes, “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is …

It’s Not Just a Bag

If traditional economic theory was correct, price UP would equal demand DOWN, all the time, in every case, for every product. And, often, that’s what …