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Leprechauns | Seth’s Blog Is there a rainbow underneath your pot of gold? Sometimes, we get it backwards. June 24, 2024 Source link

Assume lack of context | Seth’s Blog The person you’re working with might not know what you know, might not see what you see. It’s tempting…

Disney theme parks created more than 20 billion dollars in revenue last year. Coney Island, not so much. Coney Island is dozens of small honky tonk…

The Western Union trap | Seth’s Blog When the telephone began to gain traction, the monopoly of the time, Western Union, decided to get even better…

Near-future science fiction is a fine way to consider our now. Without the reality of today, we can think hard about the tomorrow we’re about to…

For thousands of years, and as recently as the 1930s, phrenology was seen as a useful proxy to judge someone’s character. Carefully charting the bumps on…

The thunderstorm doesn’t know we exist. Rain dances and wishes are ineffective at bringing or preventing a storm, because it isn’t caused by our actions. Metaphorical…

“What will I tell my boss?” | Seth’s Blog If you can’t answer that six-word question, you’re selling a commodity. Organizations don’t buy things, people do.…

Dan Dennett explained that it began as a survival mechanism. It’s important to predict how someone else is going to behave. That tiger might be a…

Any fully open system of digital communication will corrode over time. Bad messages will crowd out the good ones. The new normal: Someone finds a database…