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Sheep are not like ideas. 200 years ago, William Foster Lloyd began pointing out that if land is shared, ranchers will all have an incentive to…

It costs more than you think. Last month, I hit the old stock on the Avery labels in my office cabinet. I had a bunch of…

Money is a story. But money is also an exchangeable commodity, valued by different people in different ways. And time is the wildcard. Situational spending is…

When I made breakfast this morning, I didn’t begin by making the blender. Someone else, a team with more skills, resources and scale, built the blender.…

An artifact is an object that holds or signifies an idea. A book on paper is an artifact: it’s the object plus the words. Now that…

Working with problems | Seth’s Blog Situations have no solution, they’re not problems, they’re simply the way it is. Problems are distinguished by the fact that…

The system has fingerprints | Seth’s Blog We all make mistakes. We all do things that we then realize weren’t in our interest, or useful to…

“Does it work?” | Seth’s Blog That’s the first question. The second question is, “how do we make it work better?” These two questions, patiently repeated,…

The Strategy Deck that I made to go with my book has developed a real following. It’s a powerful way to break a creative logjam. Taking…

Tech and culture have enabled a new sort of informality. Not simply the end of suits and ties and heels at work, but the office itself…