I have said, in various contexts, that I would have to kill myself if I couldn’t write. That isn’t hyperbole. Here in no particular …

When a kid is going off to college, we always give them the following piece of advice: “If you want to get a competitive edge over …

  In business, the natural response is often to make things EVEN MORE complicated than they need to be. Business is inherently complicated anyway, so …

Back in the Soviet Union, ball bearings were a big deal. You see, as a general rule, the more industrial machines you were building, the …

  Do you remember the moment you chose to tune out everything and everyone around you to pay more attention to what’s happening behind the …

In Medieval Europe, the trade guilds had three ranks: The Apprentice. The kid. The boy. The lowest guy on the totem pole. 2. The Journeyman. From the French …

  Marcus Engman, the head designer of Ikea these last six years, just quit to go and start his own consultancy. His big idea? To convince …

There’s a rather common belief that success is the precursor to virtue, not the other way around. i.e. “We’ll be open and curious and generous …

When we think of the world, we mostly think of “countries” being the basic unit of mass human organization. The French do it a certain …

Tom Godwin was having a big ol’ rant on Twitter recently: “Someone should coin a word for this trend for ultra privileged faux “goodness” brands. Things like …

Microsoft uses technology to build community in a globally dispersed workforce of over 140,000 employees. Here’s the thing. The technology you use (and Microsoft’s technology will …

  According to Sigmund Freud, love and work are the cornerstones of our humanity. Too often, however, those cornerstones shift shape and are ill-fitting. One …