Browsing: Entrepreneurship

On meeting spec | Seth’s Blog The most useful definition of quality: It meets spec. The hard part isn’t putting in enormous effort…

Infantilization | Seth’s Blog The worst sort of powerlessness happens when we’re seduced into doing it to ourselves. Waiting to get picked Repeating…

A convincing argument | Seth’s Blog It’s almost never exclusively based on logic. We navigate the world with stories, beliefs and assumptions. And…

The other day, Tom Cruise gave a long acceptance speech. But unlike every other speech of its kind, there were no notes. No rambling. No false…

Most cultures are built around the idea of private property. Grain is harvested once a year and stored for months. If someone steals the grain (which…

Which is worth more, Kind of Blue from Miles Davis, or the third Boston album? It depends on your taste. I hope we can agree, though,…

Marshall Sahlins and others showed that early hunter gatherer societies generally didn’t work very hard. Two or three hours a day were spent gathering food, and…

Stop all | Seth’s Blog Every one of the pings, dings and clicks on this page gives me the hives. Run them in…

If someone hands you a deck, you can be sure there are 52 cards covering four suits. The universe is finite. The cards are the cards,…

I’m not sure this is the right word for it, but we certainly need one. Not ‘entrepreneurship’ which is a distinct skill. That term is usually…