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Are you playing half-court tennis?

During a recent interview over on the Dwarkesh Patel channel, Professor Sarah CM Paine (who teaches Geopolitics over at The US Naval War College) gave …

Why We’re Measuring the Wrong Thing

Apparently, we were a lot happier last year than we are this year. At least that’s what the studies say, (and we all know they’re …

Why Certainty is a Red Flag

This post is an idea inspired by the Dr Pippa Malmgren interview over at the Infinite Loops Podcast #167. According to Dr Malmgren, because certainty …

Daniel Kahneman’s Legacy: the Myth of Reason

For the last couple of centuries, ever since the Enlightenment (and even well before that), we’ve been enamored with the idea of being ruled by …

Belonging at Scale

Belonging at scale is an age-old problem. When your company is just a wee startup with a few people renting desks in a coworking space, …

Metaspeak about Metaspeak

There was a lovely trick that Gary Trudeau often used in his early Doonesbury cartoons.He would have the characters (Mike Doonesbury, BD, the Yale Admissions …

The Power of Starting Small

Over on Instagram, fellow culture nerd, Nick Smoot, made an interesting comment about organizational culture. “Recently, I listened to a @nytimes podcast about companies forcing …

Do you have an incentives problem?

If, like Boeing, you’ve had a recent series of PR disasters due to internal oversights, what do you do? You decide to tweak your incentives …

Are You Fishing from an Aquarium

The Artist goes fishing in the ocean. AI goes fishing in the aquarium. This is basically the problem people seem to be having with AI …

A Gruesome Paradox

One of the most famous paintings in The Louvre (besides the Mona Lisa) is the physically massive masterpiece from 1819, “The Raft Of The Medusa,” by …

Failure is Like Success

In a recent Daily Stoic podcast, Ryan Holiday briefly refers to an old, well-known Stoic concept, “The Cup Is Already Broken.” The idea being, instead of …