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Cities used to die slowly. Ancient Rome, Babylon, Memphis (in Egypt) and others took generations to fade from their peaks. The reasons were easy to see:…

The other kind of magic | Seth’s Blog We wait and hope for the first kind, the magic that arrives just when we…

The first things humans invented, before fire, the wheel or baked brie, was trust. Trusting the others in the village. Trusting that you could get a…

When we’re a little behind, we borrow to catch up. Perhaps we borrow goodwill and spend less time than we might on a project. Or we…

So many bits of information are flying around. Emails to us, articles, posts, videos, updates, memos, meetings, books… The most common (and apparently efficient) approach is…

900,000 vs 9 | Seth’s Blog It takes about 900,000 minutes to become a board-certified dermatologist. At that point, you might be very…

New and old, big and small | Seth’s Blog Organizations and brands can choose their quadrant. It’s tempting to want the best of…

Visitors to your new bookstore are likely to have a phone in their pockets–they could buy a book from the competition without even walking into the…

What the world teaches us | Seth’s Blog It’s possible to consider the next event in our lives as something the world is…

On making it worse | Seth’s Blog If someone with less skill and less dedication than you took over your job, could they…