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“You too?”
Have you ever had that one colleague you just clicked with? You get how they think, they get how you think, you share a common …
The Start Is Always Hardest
In February 1940, five months into World War II, just before he became Prime Minister, Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty. Germany had …
The Workaround to Murphy’s Law
Remember that one time you left your phone behind at the office which just so happened to coincide with the one time your spouse really …
Why the Sun Always Wins
“Let us agree,” said the North Wind to the Sun, in one of Aesop’s fables, “that whoever can strip that traveler of his cloak is …
He Never Repeated a Formula, Not Even His Own
Frank Gehry, the second most famous modern architect in North America after Frank Lloyd Wright, recently passed away at the age of 96. In 2000, …
The Case for Crazy
Our friend, Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy and one of the sharpest thinkers in behavioral economics, shared a great insight with us recently: “You …
He Just Dragged His Fingers Through the Sand
You know that story your best friend loves to tell about how he met his wife? He missed his flight by 20 seconds, ended up …
Thank you, shitshow
Ever heard of the Fire Phone? Most people haven’t because it was a spectacular failure. Amazon’s $199 smartphone launched in 2014 to take on Apple’s …
Just Fall
Have you ever been trapped in a problem so entangled with conflicting demands, that every attempt to solve it only tightens the knot? You argue …
Boundaries Beget Belonging
British private clubs got their start for simple economic reasons. Wealthy English landowners needed to come into the city occasionally for business: lawyers, Parliament, that …
Care is a Risk. Do It Anyway.
We live in an age of automation, globalization, and faceless systems. A world that often feels indifferent to the individual. In this vast machinery, care …
Nobody Votes for Bad Bread
If you’ve been living in Europe for a while, one of the first things you notice when you get to the US is how much …
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