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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…

“I didn’t get in” | Seth’s Blog There are two ways to process this: The selection committee saw me, understood me, and then decided to reject…

Supply and demand are always in a dance, with one outpacing the other from time to time. In the last three years, the green tech revolution…

In a We Are All Weird universe, there are two sorts of cultural disappointments. The first has been around since the dawn of cable: We don’t…

Dreams have consequences Hisham Matar Time passes, decisions are made, we face the consequences or enjoy the benefits. A few books for this moment, about navigating…

“If you don’t ask, you don’t get.” That’s problematic advice. Taken to an extreme, it turns us into hustlers. The alternative is to realize that the…

Everyone wants to be connected | Seth’s Blog But we hesitate to be the connector. Everyone wants to be trusted, but we hesitate to trust. And…

What if your boots don’t have any straps? Bootstrapping is logically impossible. You can’t pick yourself up into the air by lifting on your boots, no…