better doing

On breaking through. 

Highrise CEO Nathan Kontny tells stories about what it took for successes, including painter Claude Monet and musician Justin Bieber, to break through to exposure and success. | learn more

thoughts of food

How The Netherlands feeds the world. 

“The Netherlands is a small, densely populated country, with more than 1,300 inhabitants per square mile. It’s bereft of almost every resource long thought to be necessary for large-scale agriculture. Yet it’s the globe’s number two exporter of food as […]

profiles of people

How Israel went nuclear. 

The late Shimon Peres, former President of Israel, tells the story of how he helped Israel develop (with France’s help) it’s nuclear power capabilities. This is a cool behind-the-scenes look at big scale politics. | learn more

under the microscope

DNA surgery on embryo removes disease. 

A Chinese team has used a DNA editing technique called base editing to remove a genetic disease called beta-thalassemia from a human embryo. “Base editing is an advance on a form of gene-editing known as Crispr, that is already revolutionising [sic] science.” | learn more

better doing

Undue confidence & a stand-up response. 

In his book Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman includes a chapter about psychological priming that draws on a number of research studies. This post’s author found those studies were way too small for the level of certainty expressed in the […]