Southwest Airlines and Stevens Aviation once settled a trademark question with a CEO-to-CEO arm wrestling match. It resulted in a ton of free PR for both. “While most companies would settle the dispute the conventional way—by calling in the lawyers […]
Technologist David Heinemeier Hansson (known as DHH) is now a bit of a philosophy student as well. “Eric Fromm followed the same path of wisdom to additional insights. In The Pathology of Normalcy, he spells out exactly what makes modern […]
Todd Herman helped Kobe Bryant craft his alter ego, the Black Mamba. He is a performance coach who uses the tool of identity, “because your identity—the person or the view of yourself that’s going out to perform on that field—is […]
The very popular scientist and podcaster Andrew Huberman, Ph.D. explains the intricate timing of circadian rhythms and how to best support them with a morning routine that prioritizes light exposure, exercise and cold water immersion. This is a 15 minute […]
“I used to think I was pretty smart. I have lots of friends who are just as smart as me, and many who are smarter, but always the difference was a difference of degree. Until I met the Smartest Person.” ~ learn […]
“The pulse was sent to the motor. As always, the result was immediate, but this time, alarmingly unfamiliar. The strip chart did not look like anything we had seen before. It did not even look like a broken motor. It […]
“The Al Capone Problem is another specific example of this broader trend: if you try to understand Capone’s imprisonment based only on the court ruling that put him away, you don’t understand Capone’s imprisonment.” ~ learn more
“The editors [of Nature Aging] speak to Louise Aronson, geriatrician and Pulitzer Prize finalist, about how old age is perceived and defined, and the influence of social determinants on health.” ~ learn more
“We might call them superstitions or spells, but they genuinely drum anxiety away.” Anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas writes about the prior research into superstition as well as his most recent experiments that demonstrated that “those who performed the ritual were faster […]
While finishing high school, this author chose to volunteer at a local hospice. ~ learn more