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Engineers can optimize a bridge. There are some bridge designs that satisfy aesthetic, financial, durability, safety and efficiency needs better than others. The work of optimization…

If you don’t realize that you have power, you might not be able to exercise it. The power to speak up, to participate, to invent, to…

Coercion | Seth’s Blog One way to look at power is “you get to tell people what to do.” But an alternative is that the most…

Why isn’t this enough? There are plenty of good ideas, easy to learn from and copy. There are countless projects, well executed, with the steps on…

Direct questions worth answering | Seth’s Blog For everyone on the team… Do you care enough to do great work? Can we agree on what great…

Attention is scarce. Decisions are difficult. Searching takes effort. For thirty years, texting has been a powerful medium. It’s the thing that vibrates in our pocket.…

A lot shifted when the Apple Macintosh was introduced, and it wasn’t about the RAM, the chips or the processor speed. Our world changed forty years…

Stumbling in the dark | Seth’s Blog Learning is complicated. While we’re doing it, it’s easy to imagine that those around us are completely sure of…

It’s easy to believe that in some moments, the world is out to get you. This is unlikely. The world hardly knows you exist. There is…

Marketers like to talk about the story we tell. And non-marketers imagine that we’re referring to Goldilocks and other ‘once upon a time’ moments. Because stories…