It’s time to take the issue of passenger airplane turbulence and injuries seriously. It’s time to require more choppy air data from the airlines — right now, they provide essentially none. And it’s time you simply kept your seat belt on every moment you are in the air. For the [Keep reading]
We all talk about timing as if it’s the most powerful force on Earth. Bad Timing, for example. can ruin a good love affair, or a great product. Everyone knows this. Yet very few try to do anything about it. Humans are helpless, you might think, when confronted with the [Keep reading]
I was lucky enough to attend Jazzfest in New Orleans this week. If you’ve never been, put it on your bucket list. The big acts are great, but the smaller stages full of jazz and blues history are where it’s at. Learned all about Swamp Pop, thanks to Warren Storm, [Keep reading]
Today, I discuss the third reason people get stuck in life, this time in a more mechanical, practical way. Skip ahead to buy the book or the online course. Step functions, choke points, erosion, mystery ingredients – read on and you’ll be surprised how often your life ends up in [Keep reading]
Today, I discuss the second reason people get stuck in life. Skip ahead to buy the book or the online course. All our concepts are borrowed from math and science, and the greedy algorithm is lifted right from higher math textbooks. Formally, it means that systems (and people) [Keep reading]
“I support them and give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses. Who gives it to them? Does someone else give it to them? … Who makes the game? Do I make the game, or do they make the game? Is there 30 owners that created the league?” By [Keep reading]
Why people get stuck half-way to great, and the new science of breaking barriers Familiarity breeds contempt. It also breeds invisibility, which is a much bigger problem. If you think it’s crazy to do the same thing every day expect different results, I’m here to tell you that would [Keep reading]
“I think we’re alone now/There doesn’t seem to be anyone around.” You probably already have the tune in your head. It’s a 60s song that sounds like a 50s song that became an 80s hit because…the idea behind it is timeless. When young lovers finally get to steal a moment [Keep reading]
After the Great Recession, there is the Great Stuckness. Sure, the unemployment rate seems under control, it’s been a while since a major bank or brokerage went belly up, the Dow is soaring, and even the housing market is showing signs of life. But you probably don’t feel like things [Keep reading]
There’s been a lot of yelling about equal pay in the news lately. It’s a discussion I’d rather not wade deeply into, because boiling national labor data down to a single data point is the place where logic goes to die. Everyone knows there’s a long history of pay discrimination [Keep reading]
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