This engineer explains how he’s experienced failures from the inside, including Google Glass. “They all had a fatal flaw. Everyone saw the flaw. But the culture that arose in these teams purposefully ignored the flaw.” | learn more
The actual post is titled, “Breaking: Elon Musk is Not Stupid” and that’s also a good lead. | learn more
Lawrence Yeo takes the evolution of self and grafts it onto a metaphorical staircase. It’s an interesting exploration that reminded me of the Jung quote: “The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half […]
“In that predicament, if I’m lucky, I’ll remember the observation, usually attributed to Joan Baez, that “action is the antidote to despair.” People tend to quote this in the context of political or environmental activism, but it applies to everything […]
Or, “why philosophers spend far too much time reading and writing about dead philosophers.” | learn more
An anecdote that underpins a plea to stop being so busy at work. “What an absolutely terrifying proposition that is! That he and his team were too busy to do the job they were hired to do, and in a […]
“You probably learned at school that humans have five senses—sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste—partly because these are the ones that Aristotle identified two millennia ago. Aristotle was wrong.” | learn more
You might have heard the adage that you’re the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. This article digs into that idea. “If you measure two-and-a-half-year-old children against [same-aged] chimpanzees and orangutans, they are about even […]
“Finding the one thing that is at the heart of your value/scarcity matrix makes it much easier to focus your energy on strategic decisions.” | learn more
“But it was two participants who never completed the race that generated the most news. One ended up dead, the other found himself happier than ever. Both outcomes came from decisions made at sea, but neither had anything to do […]