Betterment

Both The Shawshank Redemption and The Big Lebowski bombed. If “bombed” means that during the first few weeks, no one went to a theater to see them. Since then, tens of millions of peopl…

You own your living room and your bedroom. We take care of our front lawn for our neighbors. And our trash (in all its forms) belongs to everyone.

They dance with each other. If expectations are too low, you don’t get the gig, and you’ll never have a chance to engage with a customer. But if they’re too high, surprise and rem…

Everyone who comes in contact with a strong culture feels it. Customers develop unique relationships with these companies. So do employees. As a

Plastic was inevitable. It took hundreds of years to perfect, but we built a system based on profit, convenience, productivity and markets. Markets are extremely good at sniffing out problems that …

Today marks the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II. It’s a milestone that feels both distant in time, and not that long ago. There are still those living among us who experienced the attack on Pearl Harbor, the invasion of Normandy, and the celebration of V-J Day firsthand. But each year, they […]

As a teaching fellow in grad school I helped undergrads improve their expository writing. Some were engineers, and I invited them to think about writing and editing prose in the same ways they thou…

Tit for tat is a strategy which, according to game theory, is the most effective choice for iterated games based on mutual cooperation or defection.

Look around the rooftops of many cities and you’ll see wooden water towers. New York has thousands of them. The reason is simple and often overlooked: In the morning, when every resident of t…

Oppositional energy is easy to create and spread. Once you pick a ‘they’, then it’s simply a matter of doing the opposite of whatever ‘they’ recommend. It’s a la…

What if someone told you that your plans are doomed to fail? That the act of planning itself is presumptuous? That there is too much complexity,

Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz

It doesn’t matter that it’s not the Super Bowl or the World Cup. For this twelve-year old, tomorrow’s game is the big game, the biggest ever, and the emotional stakes are just as …

So many choices. So many sorts of metrics, critics and measures. Perhaps it makes sense to count things where the counting tells us how to do better next time. And to count things that let us know …

Adverts and search engines have massively impacted the ways in which we read online. I don’t just mean how we find things to read, but impacts on how we read and the quality of reading online…

Evaluate how much trust you have in a claim as you process the information. Introducing the Lindy Filter and the Zettelkasten Method Evidence Scale as tools to do this. Your future self will thank you for better backed statements.

When we sing in the shower, we hardly expect applause. In fact, that would be awfully weird. But online, when just about anyone might be clicking, watching or sharing, it’s disappointing to p…

Grey thinking works. Reality is all grey area. All of it. There are very few black and white answers and no solutions without second-order consequences.

Baye’s theorem is a useful tool that helps us make more accurate predictions about the likelihood of potential outcomes.

Supercharge your learning and become smarter by using the Feynman Technique. Devised by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, it leverages the power of teaching for better learning.

Richard Feynman offers a list of seven tricks that you can use to quickly sort important from irrelevant information and focus on what matters.

Sooner or later, they’re all finite. And the way we allocate our time and emotional energy determines what gets done. If we audited your day in six-minute increments, what would we find? By t…

Getting good at anything requires a lot of practice. But not all practice is equal. Here are ten steps to faster improvement.

“What other colors do you have that are not currently in stock?” There are always more options. If exploring them is the goal, please explore. And sometimes, the unavailable can lead to…

I am supposed to be writing, but instead I am dealing with emails and exporting my newsletter data after a shock bill and reviewing deal memo details and all the things that get in the way of think…

Have you ever noticed that at your office or church, a small fraction of people do the lion’s share of the work? This is just one manifestation of what’s called the “80/20 rule.” Once you understand the 80/20 rule, you’ll start seeing it everywhere. And be able to use it to significantly improve your life. […]

Engineer-turned-marketing-consultant for B2B and enterprise software startups.

As a member of the Ottawa Tribe and someone who’s worked with over five hundred tribal nations, my guest has long been inspired by his Native American culture and heritage, particularly the tradition of native warriors. And he thinks those warriors have much to teach all modern people about work, life, and leadership. His name […]