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It's easy to believe we have an accurate understanding of ourselves. After all, we spend a lot of time looking in the mirror. It might be worth wondering about why the mirror is deemed to be ...

So many options, so little time. A friend asked if he should put his podcast on YouTube. After all, that's how many people are consuming this sort of content, it's low cost. The comment ...

Luxury goods are special: they are scarce and expensive, and they earn us status with some folks because it shows that we paid more than we needed to. Luxury isn't about quality, suitability ...

Enrico Fermi found a paradox: If there's intelligent life on other planets, why haven't we heard from them yet? Perhaps the answer is this: Any civilization sufficiently advanced to tra ...

Even though it's possible to design an oral thermometer that measures body temperature to a hundredth of a degree, there's no reason to do so. In fact, 98.6 is overkill. 98 is enough in ...

A powerful metaphor from a long hike: Every hiker is intimately aware of their backpack. They picked it out, choosing from dozens of options. They know which straps are loose and which are digging ...

Most people do the obvious thing, that's why we call it obvious. A new product, idea or technology is rarely obvious, at least at first. So the work of scale is to be seen as inevitable. The ...

Create a document, several pages long, that explains who you are. What sort of learner are you? Do you have degrees or expertise? What sort of change are you making, who works with you, what are yo ...

If you want to make a change (or make a living) it might pay to find a topic that people hesitate to talk about. There's enormous leverage in making the uncomfortable urgent enough to take ac ...

There's "regular luck" and "earned luck." When a stranger dies and leaves you $10,000,000, that's regular luck. Undeserved, unearned, a bolt out of the blue. Som ...