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tension is sport’s most seductive narrative device.

Because, like an aphorism, Memes communicate a lot with very little. You could take a meme and write an entire essay about it.

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are lots of rewards for heroic saves at work. But heroic saves undermine the desire to build better systems.

Culture is the non-fiction story of an organization. It writes itself.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes—with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience.... See more

Novelty for novelty’s sake is addictive and makes one insufferable.

Journalist Derek Thompson sums up this approach succinctly: “To sell something surprising, make it familiar; and to sell something familiar, make it surprising.”