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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, …
The Next Picasso?
There are a lot of stories in the news lately about how AI is “borrowing” the work of living artists to use as source code …
No Emotion, No Justice
Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) was a breath away from not saying “I Have a Dream.” What is arguably the greatest speech in the history …
Machines vs. Humans
McDonald’s just opened its first fully automated restaurant. Goodbye people, hello, robots! For this one location in Texas, customers can order and pick up their food …
When Life Gives you Lemons, Make… Beer?
One place is unlikely to be doing dry January this year. Argentina. At the end of the year, large beer shipments were received across the country following …
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