In most pursuits, 20% of the inputs get you 80% of the outputs. The challenge is just knowing which 20% it will be. And now that you know, what do you do with that information? Do …
Lazy entrepreneurship
As someone who spends hours every week thinking about business models, pricing, and value creation, it's painful to fall victim to a lazy entrepreneur. Maybe it's the restaurant owner who went …
The inevitability of like-culture
“Could social networks have chosen to keep likes and other such metrics about posts private, visible only to the recipient? Could we have kept this social capital arms race from escalating? Some tech …
The success algorithm
What does it look like? What are the different variables? How reliable are they in predicting success? Which variables have the greatest coefficients and thus are the strongest predictors …
If learning styles aren’t real…
Then what is? Repetition, struggle, critical thinking, practice. You may prefer certain ways of learning, but they might not help you learn better. What’s more likely is that it’s the repeated …
Out of Alignment
I heard a powerful line during my morning meditation: “Drop all of your problems for a few moments.” Easy to agree with, hard to act on. Simple, but difficult. Where else are you …