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Mediocre tools | Seth’s Blog Lousy tools are dangerous. They endanger our safety (physical or emotional) and undermine our work. Lousy tools are pretty easy to…

The stories we tell ourselves | Seth’s Blog If it happened to us, our memory of it is a story, our record of it with us…

A bureaucracy recently asked me to submit a few documents. They were very specific and the person on the phone said that the subject line of…

Writing a book is good for you. It clarifies your thinking and it’s generous as well. You might not publish it professionally, but sharing it with…

A generation ago, the Generals ruled. General Motors, General Foods, General Mills, General Dynamics… they were big, and they had a lot to lose. As a…

Asymmetrical information creates real problems. And fixing the flow of useful proxies benefits both sides. Cigarette companies knew a great deal about the addictions they were…

What do we do with our chance? | Seth’s Blog Everyone needs more chances, more benefit of the doubt, more opportunity. But what turns a chance…

Like all good metaphors, it might be practical too. Your ‘shoes’ are the point of greatest leverage. The spot where you have traction and engage with…

Forms are a convenient way for bureaucracies to collect information. They’re convenient because they offload the work to the patient/customer/taxpayer. The shift in labor led to…

Great companies and teams often get stale and then fade away. Here’s what we hear as it happens: “I’m way too important to listen to customers.…