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Geography and scarcity handicapped above-average performers and protected the average ones.

Start somewhere bad to get somewhere good. A few weeks ago, I interviewed psychologist Adam Alter about his book Anatomy of a Breakthrough . In it, he writes about the “creative cliff illusion,” the notion that good creative ideas will either come quickly or not at all. Unfortunately, our intuition has that one approximately backward. In studies of... See more

"When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life."

This is not to say that fully vertical systems are a panacea: they of course have their own drawbacks. For one, they limit patient choices (because your insurance dictates a narrow range of providers that you can see). However, value-based care contracts that create only a partial alignment between payers with providers contain many of the same dra... See more

Contrary to popular belief, most users aren’t regularly commenting, upvoting, or interacting with other users. But most new products are designed for the posters and commenters since they are the quickest to try new things, and the ones you need to jumpstart a new product. So launching a product that makes it easier to do those things isn’t actuall... See more

Minecraft is thus an almost perfect game for our current educational moment, in which policy makers are eager to increase kids’ interest in the “STEM” disciplines — science, technology, engineering and math. Schools and governments have spent millions on “let’s get kids coding” initiatives, yet it may well be that Minecraft’s impact will be greater... See more