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Potato Famine 2.0?
Social contagion, was the driving force behind Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)’s quick growth but it was also what eventually did them in. As most of …
Trapped in an echo chamber?
Where new people go, new ideas flow. That’s why infrastructure has always influenced culture. In the days of old, it shaped the flow of trade. …
Happiness: You Get to Decide
We’ve heard this story many times. The one about the hippy who travels all the way to Bali. Climbs a mountain, sits on top of …
Measure Twice, Cut Once
There are deep reservoirs of wisdom in the old carpentry adage, “measure twice, cut once.” The idea is that it’s easier to ensure you do …
How H-town got its Hustle
If you look at a map, New Orleans looks like a natural place to put the Gulf of Mexico’s largest port. It feeds right into …
When It’s Not Just a Game
Many of us have played the hit board game Monopoly and have basked in the joy of owning the entire board, collecting dues when our …
How Evil Spreads
CS Lewis, JP Sartre, and Nelson Algren all had a similar idea about the nature of evil. How boring and banal it is, and how normal …
What’s Your Latest Bad Idea?
Our friend Dr. Benjamin Hardy frequently quotes Robert Brault in Be Your Future Self Now: “We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but …
Feed the Wolf?
There’s a famous Cherokee myth about good and evil. As it goes.. An old man was teaching his grandson about life. “There’s a battle going …
What Comes First, Action or Courage?
They say leaders eat last. While this is slowly becoming a pithy, overused catchphrase, it’s also a powerful maxim that reminds leaders of their primary …
Does Slow and Steady Win the Race?
If you came of age in say, the late nineties or sooner, there were two rules you had to know: 1. Google is unstoppable, nobody …
Want to be Noticed?
The human brain has all sorts of reflexes that shape our judgment. As behavioral economists discovered, we experience a salience effect, judging things that stand …
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