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Are You A Meaning Making Machine?
“We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonize about the canine condition, worry about the plight of dogs in other …
Where Are Your Manners?
We all live in a civilization. Call it what you will – American, European, Western, International, Intercontinental, Global – but it’s obviously real. The question …
Jobless Work is Joyless Work
We’ve written before about “Quiet Quitting,” a new name for an old phenomenon that started making the rounds in 2022, where employees commit to just doing …
Why Nothing is Everything
“The void is the form, the form is the void” is a famous idea in the Buddhist Heart Sutra, on the reality of things. Thich …
The One Tech to Rule Them All
A while back, we wrote that Elon’s business model is really all about getting people to talk about Elon. And that model continues to work. …
Pink is the New Black
Browse any type of media from the last few days- TV, Twitter, Instagram etc- and you’ll see endless posts about the new Barbie movie. It …
Is Adulthood Dying?
Back in the 1990’s in the fashionable West Village neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, some clever entrepreneurs opened up a small bakery on Bleeker Street. No, …
Don’t Be A Dictator
Joseph II was Emperor of the Austrian Empire back in the time of Mozart (His character had a big role in the 1984 film, Amadeus). …
How to Be More Interesting
Back in the early 2000s, the great brand and marketing thinker, Russell Davies, famously said that “It’s a brand’s job to be interesting.” It’s a …
When Eating Your Words Pays Off
This week, after years of making disparaging remarks about third-party food delivery services like Uber Eats and Grubhub, Domino’s Pizza had a change of heart. …
The Evil in Pity
Tony Soprano, TV’s most famous antihero, is quite a paradox. On one hand, he’s a complete monster who does terrible things. On the other, he’s …
Why the ✌️wasn’t invented by the hippies
Remember the Peace Sign? Back in the 1960s during the Vietnam War, the hippies would hold two fingers up in a “V” to communicate “Peace!” …
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