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No project is going to exactly match every hope you have for it. And even before you ship the work, you've already succeeded. No project is totally worthless. So, given that failure and succe ...

If attention is what you seek and attention is what you measure, it's likely you'll create drama. And drama is inherently short-lived. The managing director of Jaguar said, "We ...

There are many ways to ask and answer this question. Authorship used to be rare, but now, all of us write something. If you're putting your words on a social media platform, you might be surp ...

Tom Brady is an elite athlete. Few have even approached the stats he had playing football. And Catherine Walker, NSTA Science Teacher of the Year, is an elite, because her pedagogy and understandin ...

It's easy to imagine that talent is a magical gift, and that we'll know it when we see it (and that you have it or you don't). And yet, over the years, Star Search has rejected ea ...

A little faster is a market advantage. A step change in speed changes the market entirely. Fedex was faster mail. It allowed them to grow and profit. Email, on the other hand, completely changed co ...

Since I was born, the planet has invented 6 billion jobs. Technology is said to threaten the replacement of human labor, yet, somehow we've found useful activities for a rapidly growing popul ...

They're a gift that lasts forever, because your friend will remember what they learned and how they felt and they can keep it on their bookshelf or hard drive as a reminder in case the ...

For the last two weeks, my weather app has informed me that there's a real risk (in this case, wildfires). But, after a few days, that's not severe weather. That's just weather. (

Power users are tempting. They know what they want, they're happy to share their preferences and they show up. But power users can also be a trap, because their specific needs might not match ...