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Nothing Is Forever
Some of the biggest news in creative circles this year has been that Jony Ive is leaving Apple, after a quarter-century of reaching the highest heights …
We all know gratitude IS the mother of virtues. Here’s why.
Life is harder now because our world is designed to distract us. Our world is more confusing than ever. This is no secret. Depression …
Time Is The First Casualty Of Adult Life
That’s the first thing you notice when you leave college. Suddenly nobody has any time anymore. Especially you. I like Sherry. She’s a nice young …
CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!
[NB. SPOILERS AHEAD] Tolstoy’s Prince Andrei (“War And Peace”) is one of the great tragic figures in literature. He starts off promisingly enough- an idealist, …
Why Gender Diversity Matters To Making Your Business More Successful
So there is a lot of social and political pressure nowadays for more diversity and equality in all aspects of public life (including race, …
What the World Needs Now is a New Generation of Empathetic Leadership.
Our friend Brian has been collaborating with us since 2007. We’ve done super cool projects for Linkedin (Once Upon A Digital Time and Attention Is A Currency) as …
Wanna Be A Billionaire?
There are bosses, and then there are superbosses. What is a superboss? It’s not that they are giants themselves (which they are), but that they hire …
Isn’t it amazing that what was true for the Romans is still true today?
The Roman army had three layers: the legionnaires (the rank and file), the centurions (junior officers), and the generals (senior officers). And of these three, …
The Noble Truth You Must Live
In Viking times, when young men reached that awkward stage (too old to be a kid, but still too weak to fulfill the duties of …
Business Norms are Cultural Norms
It’s always interesting to see how norms change, and how behavior, at scale shifts over time. Here is a story about the ad industry that …
Where is our humanity?
Just because folk like us are using say, Amazon more often, doesn’t mean our need for human contact has lessened. To quote Deb Schultz, “Technology changes, …
The Simplest Key To Success
It’s a funny thing about disruptive technology. Sometimes the tech isn’t actually that disruptive. Take Airbnb, it’s totally disrupting the hotel business. But if you look at …
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