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What if they meant it? What if your return felt special to the people behind the counter? What if they knew, without looking it up, or…

We transferred an idea from engineering to culture, but it’s incomplete. If you build a watch that doesn’t tell time, it’s fair to say it doesn’t…

Organizations that need you | Seth’s Blog “How few people can we get away with?” That’s a question many bosses think hard about. Automate. Streamline. Improve…

Eager to give up agency | Seth’s Blog We work so hard to have freedom and leverage and choice. And then, as soon as a social…

When new creation technologies arrive, they make the best a little worse and the bad a lot better. Desktop publishing made every local garage sale sign…

Optimizing yourself into a corner | Seth’s Blog Organizations thrive on incremental improvement. They find a stable foundation and then build a feedback loop of relentless…

For generations, the rules of Lego were simple: many pieces, all able to connect in many ways, led to many outcomes. That almost drove the company…

More interesting | Seth’s Blog Built into the concept of “interesting” is the unexplored. The temptation of discovery and the new. And so, by definition, wherever…

First take/next take/last take | Seth’s Blog Nailing it in the first take is a sign of preparation and professionalism. No need for two tries if…

One of the best traditional bakeries in New York has a kitchen you can see from the counter. People wait in line for their handmade French…