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Effort and value | Seth’s Blog We expend effort. We create value. It’s easy to get confused about which one we’re going to ultimately be compensated…

Wild animals forage. They spend calories and take risks to acquire food. If the required work and risk expended are more than the food they acquire,…

Little kids get confused about this… just add a few more to a very big number, and you have infinity. Actually, infinity is a feeling and…

…but it’s often overlooked. A farmer might yearn for twice as much land. But it’s far more efficient to double the yield on the land he…

Expectations | Seth’s Blog We might deserve something. We might be entitled to it. But expectations are a story we tell ourselves, and that story is…

I asked my AI about some obsolete card games, and it wrote a 1,000 word essay about Lansquenet. It made up the rules, the strategies, the…

Workers have rarely gotten the long end of the stick. The seduction of “do what you’re told and you’ll win valuable prizes” often doesn’t hold up…

It’s thrilling when someone reads our minds. Sometimes we call it hospitality, or smart user interface design. Sometimes, it simply feels like being seen. The person…

Have you ever made a video that was seen by someone you didn’t know? Or written something that got shared outside of your inner circle? The…

There are two ways of thinking about doing more than is necessary. It can become a really useful marketing tactic. When you deliver more than people…