Betterment

Apple didn’t succeed because of the way Steve Jobs dressed. Just like SBF’s hair didn’t put him in jail. We can look at the outré behavior of various Silicon Valley overlords and …

Make It New

Here are the people who have most greatly influenced my thoughts on learning.

It might feel like an endless slog now, but when the innovation appears, people won’t remember how long it took to get here. Often, we assume that today’s snapshot is actually the entir…

The Third Attractor, The Third Horizon, and the Third Reality

They say one does their best work when they’re actually not working, but in a state of play, or as the clever folk like to call it, “Flow.” According to

Johnny.Decimal is a system to organise projects (or your life, or anything else)

“I don’t want to send this pitch to a list of every single podcaster in the world, but we have to get the word out.” “I don’t want to send an email to every one of our…

Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is known as one of the greatest movies of all time. It’s usually found in most serious film critics’ top-ten lists. Three

Many moths are attracted to light. That works fine when it’s a bright moon and an open field, but not so well for the moths if the light was set up as a bug trap. Processionary caterpillars f…

Hibernating animals spend the fall feasting, putting on weight in preparation for the months to come, when sufficient food won’t be available. During the winter, they lay secure in their dens and don’t eat or drink for months, instead subsisting on their stores of fat. It’s a model that has some application to the human […]

The big business news of late is that Sam Bankman-Fried (SBM) was convicted in Federal Court on all seven counts of fraud and faces up to over a century

Players say that mental conditioning was just as important as physical in preparation for the National Women’s Soccer League title.

Johnny.Decimal is a system to organise projects (or your life, or anything else)

A few decades ago, Chérie Carter-Scott devised a list of 10 Rules for Being Human, which was published in her 1998 book If Life Is

In Steven Pressfield’s classic The War of Art, he introduces the idea of Resistance. It’s the internal force that keeps us from doing our most important creative work. If an instinct, a…

Mixing up a batch of homemade vegan marshmallow Fluff® is an exercise in patience. For the first nine minutes of the ten minutes it takes in the mixer, not much happens. And then, it transforms int…

“….the rich were kept in power by the connivance of the educated classes, who encouraged the People to vote into office the lickspittle frontmen of the Elite who would make promises they had …

It’s worth the most when it’s the most difficult to find.

Have you ever glanced across a restaurant and seen a couple sitting together in silence? They stared at each other, at their meal, or, most likely, at their phones. This is a sad sight, for staying engaged throughout a dinner date indicates the health of a long-term relationship in two ways. First, it shows that […]

In the late 1990s, Havas, the large marketing multinational bought the independent ad agency, Jordan McGrath in New York. The CEO, Bob Schmetterer gave an

How can you run more effective meetings? One way is to study folks who are masters at running effective meetings, and get paid for it — professional facilitators. Roger Schwarz is one of the world’s leading experts on facilitation. He has a set of what he calls ground rules for

There are people who get paid to play the flute or bassoon. There are far more people who volunteer to participate in a community orchestra. For many, rehearsals or performances are the high points…

Not all tech is new tech. The ballpoint pen was a revelation, and a bit controversial. Now, it’s disposable and obvious. Different industries go through tech spurts. My desk is covered with i…

In Book IX of Homer’s Iliad, Western Civilization’s first great epic, the hero of the book, Achilles has to make a choice. He can choose either (1) to

Deny the problem. Minimize it, make up data, distract from the conversation, make people feel like hypocrites, and emphasize the convenient and persistent elements of what is in place. Acknowledge …

Does it seem like people are more tired and less motivated and ambitious these days? They do less hosting and attending of events. It’s harder to get them to volunteer to run the school carnival or participate in a church service project.  Hustle culture is out; self-care is in. People seem just to want to […]

Everyone knows what it is to be conscious, and we imagine that other people are also aware. That we have a voice in our heads, apparent agency and free will, a little person inside who is commentin…