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Governments sporadically got things spectacularly wrong. In 1865, the rail and horse-drawn carriage lobbies in the U.K. drummed up enough outrage to p

This is why successful companies still pursuing breakthroughs are always led by live players, often the founders. Only Mark Zuckerberg could have cha

anyone who prioritizes the wellbeing of the “future of humanity” in the abstract over the dignity and care of individuals in the present cannot claim

Consider one more possibility: that the people who seem to slow us down and hold us back are actually preventing things from happening too fast. Imagi

Our metrics of progress have continuously abstracted: from the tangible bushels of wheat in agricultural economies (with natural physical limits), to

Aggressive growth projects often lead to UX cruft, slowly degrading long-term user engagement and retention. Yes, you can move short-term metrics by t

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What do you wish Strategists would do more of?“Find opportunities for action, and not just diagnostics.”“Choices. Most planning presentations open up

When institutions become powerful and entrenched, the logic of state interest begins to override the more fundamental interests of continuity. The qua

When institutions become powerful and entrenched, the logic of state interest begins to override the more fundamental interests of continuity. The qua

Start in the future and work backward

If you pay attention, you’ll see that today’s winning brands understand the customer’s story is the only one that matters. Your most important job as

Solving a problem for your user is great, but easing their cognitive dissonance can have a much greater emotional impact. There is likely something th

DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters

Governments sporadically got things spectacularly wrong. In 1865, the rail and horse-drawn carriage lobbies in the U.K. drummed up enough outrage to p

This is why successful companies still pursuing breakthroughs are always led by live players, often the founders. Only Mark Zuckerberg could have cha

Governments sporadically got things spectacularly wrong. In 1865, the rail and horse-drawn carriage lobbies in the U.K. drummed up enough outrage to p

This is why successful companies still pursuing breakthroughs are always led by live players, often the founders. Only Mark Zuckerberg could have cha

Startup Handbook: Hiring Employees

There is no ideal pitch deck. The narrative depends on what you’re building—but I really like this one: 1. Vision for the world in 5 years 2. The nove

“You can search and search all your life, but sometimes you need to realise you’ve arrived.”

“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

Christians believe purgatory exists because of God’s divine mercy, but even here on earth, perhaps the waiting period is more merciful than we realize

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

limited scale allows for sanity in both product development and the authoring of books. If you don’t need a billion users or a million readers, sudden

Things are weird. Play with the weirdness.

Enormous subjects are best approached in thin, deep slices. I discovered this when first learning how to program. The textbooks never worked; it all o

When startups start taking off, the founders usually can't tell what's changed. It's some combination of all the random things they did to make it ta

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Learned helplessness, the failure to escape shock induced by uncontrollable aversive events, was discovered half a century ago. Seligman and Maier (19

the nervous system is not only a biological entity but also a complex network highly responsive to personal interests. This concept suggests that when

Edward Deci and Richard Ryan. People feel motivated when they are put in situations that give them autonomy (I’m in control of my choices), competence