Adam Grant and Samir Nurmohamed Grant shows how Brad bird united his team by rallying against a common enemy. The enemy in this case was the outside expectation that they would fail. Samir Nurmohamed expands on this with Adam: In a study with job seekers who had faced discrimination in their careers, Samir randomly assigned some of them to tell a... See more
Ben Kohlmann Ben wrote an essay for a military news site. He explained his frustration and challenged the Navy to start supporting and promoting junior people with disruptive ideas.
I think we need to, in this time, we need to reckon with the fact that in each and every single one of our bodies holds living memory of our ancestors coming into agreements with plants and animals, and those agreements are those, um, covenants that our ancestors, you know, wove themselves into with plants is that they said, "we'll give up a little... See more
We’re on a twenty-year loop: the time it takes for a new generation to be born, kick around for a while, and then settle into the rhythm of the spheres.
On investment in India: Young and entrepreneurial ecosystem that want to build well, traditionally frugal. Option to list in Singapore and then go public on US stock exchange.
Hollow Abstraction:
An abstraction that sounds coherent, but lacks a specific referent
Most people are easy targets for HAs, because they draw conclusions from abstractions without checking if they're hollow.
Hollow Abstraction is the mental model that best... See more