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]
Corporations behave in miserable ways these days. A nasty combination of Quarter-by-quarter thinking, executive-worker pay gap, and the distance between owner and consumer are largely to blame. (When the local butcher screwed you, you could ruin his reputation. When a multi-national corporation screws you, who cares?) But as I often [Keep reading]
Something has gone horribly wrong with AOL email, and here’s what you need to know. 1) If you get an email from an AOL.com email address, treat it as toxic – even if it appears to comes from a friend. 2) If you have, or had, and AOL email account, [Keep reading]
I received an unexpected email from a friend today with a Google doc attachment. It was a friendly note, so friendly that I did consider clicking on it — even with about 20 years experience watching all manner of hacker tricks. Fortunately, I stopped and asked a simple question, which [Keep reading]
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