19 2025 February
The Secret of Startup Success Might Be Who Is Willing to Lose Money the Longest
Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, Uber … all dominant players in their industry. What if the secret to their success is just that they were all willing...
Read Now15 2025 January
The Slow Decline of Patriotic Branding (and Maybe National Pride Itself)
There was a time when patriotic branding was hot. That time seems to be over. According to an eye-opening new study from a sociologist at...
Read Now02 2025 January
6 Techniques to Find Anything That’s Lost or See What Others Miss
You know that moment when you misplace something, and it takes forever to find? It could be your keys or a handwritten to-do list or...
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Short Form Video Is Back and It Might Actually Have Been a Great Idea After All
Four years ago, with much fanfare (and budget), a platform called Quibi emerged with the promise that people would watch short vertical episodic shows and...
Read Now25 2024 November
Why Do Most People Hate the Sound of Their Own Voice?
Do you hate to listen back to a recording of your own voice? Most people do and this has been true for so long that...
Read Now21 2024 November
The Problem of Expertise
Is your expertise holding you back from being more open minded? Recently I sat down with Ben Weiss for his excellent Leaders + Legends Podcast and shared...
Read Now20 2024 November
The Beautiful Thing About Paradoxes
If you’re like me, you may soon find yourself with just a little more time to think, due to business travel slowing and holidays not...
Read Now24 2024 October
What Funny Wildlife Photos Can Teach Us About Life
If you have ever gone out with a camera to try and capture animals in the wild doing something interesting, you might have felt that...
Read Now18 2024 October
The Virtues of [Not] Playing It Safe
Can a song capture 50 years of one of the most iconic buildings in the world? Tim Minchin is an Australian composer who was commissioned...
Read Now16 2024 October
Adobe Helps Creators Protect Their Work with Digital Content Credentials
You would expect Adobe, a company that has millions of professional creators using their software tools every day to find ways to support that community....
Read Now07 2024 October
Hiding Our Secrets or Personal Struggles Is Going to Get Harder in the Age of AI
The way we search on Google is with keywords and phrases. Most of us probably would not want to think about how our search engine...
Read Now26 2024 September
What “Jobs You’ve Never Heard Of” Can Teach You About a Better Way to Work
Sometimes a good roundup post is exactly what you need to give you a new perspective on work. That’s what this compilation from the team...
Read Now29 2024 August
In a World of Digital Silence, What Should Anything Sound Like?
Electric cars are quiet. Maybe too quiet. The problem, as some public health groups warn, is that electric cars dramatically increase the risk of accidents with...
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