Browsing: Entrepreneurship

None of it is important (and all of it is) | Seth’s Blog Steinbeck points out that the stars shine in the sky, regardless of the…

Art is a verb | Seth’s Blog If a machine makes a painting that no one ever sees, it might be well-crafted or match some objective…

Marketing clerks | Seth’s Blog Bookkeepers do important work. But a bookkeeper is not the head of accounting. Marketers are responsible for anything the organization does…

Real artists do all the painting themselves, not like Rembrandt Real artists use brushes, not technology like Cartier-Bresson Real writers write it out by hand, not…

How to teach marketing | Seth’s Blog Trick title. There are at least three kinds of “marketing” we ought to be teaching: Marketing from the point…

In simple situations with obvious metrics, transparency earns trust. Voting, for example, benefits from audit trails and inspectability. But transparency can also undermine trust. Walking through…

Professionals know how to talk about it | Seth’s Blog We evolved words on top of our primordial ability to have feelings. Words allow us to…

Stop ruining it | Seth’s Blog Paul McGowan makes stereos. To paraphrase his insight: The musicality isn’t a feature you add to an amplifier. It’s what’s…

Even if you’re not applying, this thought experiment gives a glimpse into how the world is about to be rewired. The top 10 most selective colleges…

Any gathering of more than two people involves compromise. Embracing this fact actually increases the utility of the event. It’s a trap to commit to making…