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Culture has stability. "The way things are around here." When we are pushed too far from our norms, life gets stressful. Some of the people in the systems that used to keep things stabl ...

Principles have a priority. Isaac Asimov's three rules of robotics were: First LawA robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second LawA r ...

It's a lazy amplifier. "Very" can modify almost any adjective, but it might not deliver our intended message. Putting it in front of a positive like "charming" or R ...

If worrying about paying the mortgage gets you motivated to lean hard into the next project, don't be surprised if that sort of fear arises every time you have hard work to do. If your goal i ...

Alas, we probably will. Recurring scams, hustles and deceptions work because we're eager to be fooled by them. Vaporware, false deadlines, fake budgets, unrealistic promises and straight out ...

There's a huge difference between carrying a stethoscope and being a doctor. And being a clown requires far more than getting a clown suit. Entrepreneurs with business cards, slick websites a ...

Once you decide to write a book about strategy, it raises the bar for having a strategy for the launch. People generally focus far too much on the launch of a project. Rocketships need a perfect la ...

Periods were an extraordinary invention. It took thousands of years of writing before we settled on this simple convention. The most direct way to improve your writing is to make your sentences sho ...

You are someone's ancestor. Most immediately, you are the ancestor of the you of tomorrow. That's why we don't spend every penny in our bank account, why we put leftovers in the f ...