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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 …
How Much is Too Much
In 1965, CEOs at the top 350 publicly owned US firms made 20 times as much as their average employee. In 2021, they made 400 …
Fact Vs. Fiction: It’s Not About the Truth
A myth, once circulated, can last a long time. That’s because our cognitive machines are rife with glitches. (The existence of these glitches is the …
What Does It Mean to Be Human?
If you read The Holy Bible or sacred books like it, what do you find? People struggling away at whatever challenges the Almighty sends them. …
Kids, What Are They Good For?
In many families, people can say it like it is. You’re more likely to be brutally honest with a family member than Bob from accounting. …
FOMO for Fun and Profit
Understanding human nature is the key to a successful business. That hasn’t changed for centuries (and neither has human nature). The burgeoning field of Behavioral …
Scaling Innovation: Is Necessity the Mother of Invention?
Alphabet (Google’s parent company) is reportedly looking to rein in X, a division of Google that sets “moonshots”(- i.e. big audacious projects seeking to …
Have you liked the egg?
Messi’s team may have recently won the world cup. However, his bigger victory might just be beating an egg at the game of Instagram. But …
The End of the World is the Beginning
The Joe Rogan podcast has rather unexpectedly emerged in the last few years as a place where many of the most interesting new ideas coming …
Missing Out?
The fear of missing out (a.k.a FOMO) rules the world. In Influence, Robert Cialdini called it the scarcity principle. A millennia ago, FOMO was a …
Regrets, I’ve Had a Few
In his latest book, “The Power of Regret: How Looking Backwards Moves Us Forward,” Daniel Pink opens with the following story about the great French singer, …
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