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Busy people in important organizations waste a lot of time naming things. It could be that once a name is good enough, you’re done. That’s certainly…

The NSE confusions | Seth’s Blog “Nobody wants this” is unlikely. “Somebody will like this” is almost certainly true. “Everyone needs this” is a trap. The…

Since the days of Atari and Apple, the culture of Silicon Valley has been based on the idea of programmers and early employees owning equity in…

One way to understand creative work is to think about the time and effort required to do something the first time versus doing it again. A…

Picky or particular? | Seth’s Blog A picky customer is oppositional. Whatever you offer, they want something (slightly) different. A particular customer is easy to delight.…

Maybe it’s in how you tell it | Seth’s Blog The plot of 2001: A Space Odyssey is pretty simple. You could write out a summary…

Throat clearing | Seth’s Blog Simply say it. The first minute of a speech, the first paragraph of a novel or the tuning of the orchestra…

Ways to alter the structure | Seth’s Blog Cutting Growing Grinding Pruning Irrigating Sanding Cultivating Grafting Pressuring Polishing Shifting Feeding Bending Welding Celebrating Melting Burning It…

Waves and tides | Seth’s Blog It’s easy to be distracted by the wave that’s crashing on the shore. On the other hand, the tide is…

Predicting the past | Seth’s Blog It’s not unusual to encounter conflicting weather reports. One site says it’s going to rain, the other insists it won’t.…