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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 …
Celebrating Carol Kaye
Here’s a bit of trivia: Who is the most recorded band of all time? You’d probably guess someone like the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. …
What Kim Kardashian Can Teach Us About Reality
In the 1914 short story, “Araby”, James Joyce wrote about a wee boy in 1890s Dublin, who has a huge crush on a young girl …
Winning Starts with A-Players
Possibly the most impressive structure of Late Antiquity were the Theodosian Walls, the largest defensive city walls in the Byzantine Empire built in the 5th Century …
Are You Keeping Your Word?
Back in the old days (think Ancient Greek or Viking times), our word was considered VERY important. We took an oath VERY seriously, and if …
Who Decides What’s Symbolic?
Who decided that this sparkle symbol means “A.I.”? The sparkle symbol has been around for a long time, but it’s never had a clear, stand-out …
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