26 2025 May
What Is Millennial Hobby Energy?
Doing things for fun is making a comeback. That may seem like an odd statement, but there is a time in many people’s lives when...
Read Now30 2025 April
Should You Be Polite to Chatbots? Research Says Yes. Sam Altman Says It Costs Millions in “Wasted” Computing Power
How polite are you when you ask ChatGPT a query? According to Sam Altman, the human propensity to be nice when asking technology for solutions...
Read Now15 2025 April
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Sibling Effect by Jeffrey Kluger
As part of the celebration for National Siblings Day, I chose to resurface The Sibling Effect this week—a book written several years ago about the impact that...
Read Now14 2025 March
The 7 Non-Obvious Secrets of Understanding People to Predict the Future
This past week, I debuted a new keynote talk at SXSW, and it was all about understanding people. I will share the full video when...
Read Now30 2025 January
The No Book: An Inside Look at Tim Ferriss’s New Book (and How He Protects His Time)
In case you’re not familiar with author Tim Ferriss, here’s a crazy fact about him: If he’s in a time when he isn’t checking email...
Read Now07 2025 January
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Infectious Generosity by Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson knows big ideas. As the head of TED, the global organization behind TED talks and TED X events, he has been witness to...
Read Now18 2024 November
Why Do So Many Companies Want People Back in The Office Now?
The future of work is hybrid. If there was one prediction I heard most often about the workplace coming out of the pandemic, this was...
Read Now12 2024 November
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Win Bigly – Persuasion In A World Where Facts Don’t Matter | 2nd Edition, by Scott Adams
Back in 2017, I selected this book as a winner in our Non-Obvious Book Awards program that year because of how perfectly it described a...
Read Now04 2024 November
The Forgotten Silence of Childless Men
At several points over the past few years, I’ve showcased a story about women who make the personal choice not to have children. Usually, their...
Read Now08 2024 October
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Stuff – Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee
How much stuff is enough? Most of us would agree that compulsive hoarding crosses a line, but how common is it exactly and what can...
Read Now27 2024 September
This Chatbot Could Actually Change Minds … Using Facts?!
The prevailing wisdom about human behaviors and beliefs today is that facts are not persuasive in changing minds or shifting beliefs. Usually, it’s true. That’s...
Read Now27 2024 March
Do You Have the Right to Recline in a Crowded Airplane Economy Seat?
Seat reclining does not improve your leg room. That’s just one of the underappreciated truths about airplane seats that seems like it needs to be...
Read Now06 2024 March
Why Americans Stopped Hanging Out and the Crisis of Social Fitness
A long read last week from The Atlantic offered this viral headline – Why Americans Stopped Hanging Out. Around the same time, I came across...
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