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Be Careful What You Wish For

We’ve been watching the Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes train wreck with great interest. Most entrepreneurs are happy to claim that they’ll do “whatever it takes” to …

What makes life worth living?

It’s great being alive, isn’t it? There’s just one problem. The problem being, you don’t get it for free. You pay to be alive. In …

Why the messenger gets shot

We’ve got some bad (or at least, bad-ish) news in the human behavior department: Apparently, you can say “don’t shoot the messenger” all you want, …

Make Your Meetings A Safe Space For Honest Conversation

Here’s a novel idea: that “safety” and “productivity” are interrelated. I.e. the less psychologically stressed people feel in a meeting, the easier it will …

Seeing The World Anew

The advertising business is notorious for only hiring young people. To have a job in the creative department over the age of fifty is …

The one thing best performers always do

The thing about reaching the summit is that you never stay there very long. When they get to the top of Everest, the usual …

How to leverage the laws of nature to build better outcomes.

Competition, against ourselves or against others, is what gets the best results from us. But so does collaboration. How does that work? Let’s reframe the …

You really do need to pick yourself

“Pick Yourself” is another of our favorite blog posts from our friend, Seth Godin. “It’s a cultural instinct to wait to get picked. To seek out …

Let’s dance with infinity

We love this blog post from Seth. He’s totally right, the digital age does allow us to“Dance with infinity”, i.e. hope our product reaches an …

Want to know how to manage yourself?

Jason and David, the two co-founders of Basecamp wrote a fantastic book a few years ago called “Remote”, which explains the virtues of remote working. The benefits of …