Caroline Mays

The world is built by those who can think, but it is ran by those who can articulate.

"In the long-run (and often in the short-run), your willpower will never beat your environment. The more disciplined your environment is, the less disciplined you need to be. Don't swim upstream."

The late biologist E.O. Wilson said that “the real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous.” Wilson said that back in 2011, long before any of us were talking about large language models or GPTs.

But as pilgrims must discover if they are to complete their quest, we are led to truth by our weaknesses as well as our strengths.”​— Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer

If I had to guess, I think the general disappearance of good manners has something to do with how we’ve been conditioned to view each other: as things, not people. We see other people as things that can get us things. Maybe we have such little respect for one another because we have such little respect for ourselves. The commodification of the... See more

A few months ago during a talk at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business I was asked on how one goes about building a personal brand.

After some thought I noted that successful brand stand for something and have finely honed positions. Therefore I suggested an exercise to develop such brand positions.

Identify three words that uniquely... See more