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The go-to guy vs. the here-already guy
First lesson in Economics 101: everything is scarce. But is it, really? Because the global economy, today, is less about guns and butter than …
The Secret Is Who Not How
Our friends, Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan have a new book coming out soon, and it reminded us of something that Matt Mullenweg, the CEO, and founder of Automattic (the parent …
The Tyranny of “Back to School”
The stories of how university life has changed are reported in the news daily. We read stories of students being expelled, for congregating, partying, and being kids. The …
Are You Rethinking What’s Important? Lots of people are!
Two generations ago, we started to outsource child-rearing, so both parents could be breadwinners. Which worked well. Until it didn’t. So now families by their …
Don’t let them take away your crayons
From the 2009 bestseller, “Ignore Everybody”: Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take …
Diversity Soup by Dave Trott
There’s an old Chinese folk tale about two monks. They come to a poor village to beg for food, but no-one has any to …
Nobody Told Me
A favorite story of ours is about the original Olympic Games, in Ancient Greece. If you won an event, unlike today, you didn’t get …
Slowly, Then All At Once
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”. What Hemingway wrote about one of …
Why doesn’t anyone know anything?
The technology business is very much like the movie business: For all the very smart people working in it, the reality is, to quote William Goldman, …
The idea that ate you
It was not you who ate the idea, but the idea that ate you… There’s a species of ant that will climb to the …
Are you built for the future?
We’ve all been reading tons of stuff about life before, during, and after Covid-19. Rightly so, the media is utterly awash with it. Even so, …
When Does It Go Back To Normal?
The big news this week was, “Google to Keep Employees Home Until Summer 2021 Amid Coronavirus Pandemic”. When the company with the most data in …
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