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For over 99 percent of our species’ history we lived amidst scarcity. Thus you, dear reader, like me and everyone else, evolved to seek out high-reward, low-energy-needed-to-acquire goods. This strategy worked well for hundreds of thousands of years. But now, in modern times of abundance, it is backfiring. Like so many things, what works,... See more

Invest in people, not companies

Consulting is a labor-intensive business; thus on paper, it’s not scalable. The more clients you serve, the more consultants you need to hire. And so how can you possibly play the game of capitalism—which is all about increasing returns to scale? Well, you hire mostly juniors, make them work very hard in exchange for a relatively small amount of... See more

I suggest writing emails to your friends. Writing with an audience in mind makes the writing better, and writing to a friend means you won’t get hung up on how you sound. You’ll become closer, too, to whoever you share your thoughts with, and odds are you’ll draw the same thoughtfulness out of them. Your inbox will become less of a place for

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Web 2.0 was all about your content living where the users were. We developed these new platforms with engagements such as likes, retweets, and upvotes as the next way to build reputation signals for content.