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Decisions are easy, choices are hard. A good decision is our best analysis of the facts, options and risks. If it’s too close to call, flip…

Every successful SNL sketch, every bestselling book, every landslide-winning candidate… every single one… had skeptics. Someone in the writer’s room, or on the editorial board or…

Slow down to speed up | Seth’s Blog Almost all car crashes would be avoided if the driver were just going a bit slower. (That’s why…

Sheep are not like ideas. 200 years ago, William Foster Lloyd began pointing out that if land is shared, ranchers will all have an incentive to…

It costs more than you think. Last month, I hit the old stock on the Avery labels in my office cabinet. I had a bunch of…

Money is a story. But money is also an exchangeable commodity, valued by different people in different ways. And time is the wildcard. Situational spending is…

When I made breakfast this morning, I didn’t begin by making the blender. Someone else, a team with more skills, resources and scale, built the blender.…

An artifact is an object that holds or signifies an idea. A book on paper is an artifact: it’s the object plus the words. Now that…

Working with problems | Seth’s Blog Situations have no solution, they’re not problems, they’re simply the way it is. Problems are distinguished by the fact that…

The system has fingerprints | Seth’s Blog We all make mistakes. We all do things that we then realize weren’t in our interest, or useful to…