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The weird math of halfway | Seth’s Blog 6 times 1/2 doesn’t equal 3. It equals zero. We’re tempted to do a little less than we…

In the old days, companies had a suggestion box. It was immortalized in cartoons, but the idea that an employee could anonymously submit a suggestion to…

In action movies, there’s a lot of leaping. Brave shifts in which the hero gets from here to there, all at once. It’s easy to imagine…

We’re busy, we’re confused and we’re always seeking a shortcut. If a company is hiring, the person who worked at Google or Apple or Disney gets…

Every four years, give or take, I make a big but cheap ask: Consider subscribing to this blog. If you’re already a subscriber, please ask five…

How big a swing do we need to make it feel like it matters? At the casino, some folks play with $5 chips, some with $100…

One of the unmentioned causes of division in much of our culture happens because of the shift in expectations and rules when we begin to live…

If we take a big enough dataset… Add to it machine learning and autotune and the race to fit in and reach the masses… We end…

Living indoors, connected to a screen, it’s easy for the months and years to blur together. The seasons used to matter more. But for young adults,…

If you were around when the Model T was first announced, you could have built the organizations that became Disney, McDonald’s and Holiday Inn, all of…