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The Internet is Iteration
Even though he’s as rich and famous as a movie star, and never has to work ever again, the standup comedian and podcaster, Joe Rogan …
How Many Volts?
Nothing happens until someone feels something. In the critically acclaimed show Mad Men, Jon Hamm plays Don Draper, a creative director on 1960s Madison Avenue. …
The Sweetest Most Important Sound
“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare asks in Romeo and Juliet. Not much. He says: “That which we call a rose by any other name would …
Simple is Beautiful
There is a common phenomenon among people starting their own business to overplan. People will spend months crafting the perfect integrated marketing strategy, designing the …
The Power of Situationships
Remember Sweethearts, those popular heart-shaped fruit flavored candies that appear every year around Valentine’s Day, with those corny wee messages printed on the front of …
The Right Way is the Hard Way
Jerry Seinfeld was once interviewed by HBR’s Daniel McGinn: McGinn: You and Larry David wrote Seinfeld together, without a traditional writers’ room, and burnout …
What’s Your Gift?
“The artist appeals to that part of our being which is a gift, and not an acquisition, and therefore more permanently enduring.” – Joseph Conrad. …
Buckle Up
Build back _ _ _ _ _ _ Yes, _ _ _ _ _ Make _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ …
Don’t Roll the Dice
Napoleon had a paradoxical leadership style. Instead of organizing his army into one huge mass, he organized his army into semi-autonomous divisions of 20-30K men, …
The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions
In Seth Godin’s “Tribes” book, he shares a story about a nonprofit who conducted a vaccination campaign in Rwanda. It spent its resources creating beautiful, …
The Geek Way
Back in November, Econtalk’s Russ Roberts did a great podcast interview with the MIT Research Head, Andrew McAfee, to talk about his new book, “The …
Life is Not Like Formula Fiction
One of the filmmaker Woody Allen’s most critically acclaimed movies is the late-1970s masterpiece, “Manhattan.” It’s a film about a bunch of fairly successful Manhattanites …
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