Britt Gage

The archives of human cleverness are filled with blunders. When read in a good mood, history is a blooper reel. But it should not be lost on us that history never repeats, and modern technology enables ever more leverage. The more technology you can harness to commit an idea, and the faster your idea can spread, the greater the magnitude of somethi... See more

I have learned so many things from music about writing. I think there are three important elements: rhythm, harmony, and free improvisation. I learned these things from music, not from literature. And when I started to write, I tried to write as though I were playing music.

Enter the MTA’s Extra Credit campaign, which is trying to sell students on the appeal of MetroCards (or later this year, free OMNY cards ). Last month, the agency began giving away a free virtual reality Meta Quest 2 headset each week to a random high school student who uses their student MetroCard and has perfect attendance that week.

Embracing the risk of losing everything means learning that our self-worth and identity are not solely tied to the success or failure of our ventures.

Product-market fit always starts with the customer. And Dan Olsen’s PMF framework starts from the bottom up.

we tend to procrastinate on tasks that bring up difficult emotions, like fear, pressure, or self-doubt.

Emotional labor is the opposite of the industrial economy’s task-based, measured output. Even if we don’t dig ditches, the offer for a certain kind of work was: Process this pile of papers and we don’t care whether you like (or pretend to like) your job. The labor is the easily measured stuff.

But AI and mechanization have turned this sort of task w... See more