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Caught in the reputation trap
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” “Don’t be the boy who cried wolf!” Those old proverbs and folksy sayings capture the idea of what Professor Huw Price referred to as the...
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Weekend Reads: Oct 22
Some old, some new, all good. If you’ve a little time, enjoy a little reading. And if you have a lot of time, perhaps you’ll pick up a new book or two! ARTICLES Quartz: I spent 15 year confusing money...
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The prestige trap
Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you’d like to like. Paul Graham, the founder of Y-Combinator,...
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Pay attention to the details
Every newspaper, newsmagazine, news site, et al., has hyper-focus on one thing: Clinton v. Trump, 2016. Now, obviously, the election of the next president in the US is front-page news. It will impact...
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A Retreat From the End of History
As most of you well know, Poland is near and dear to my heart. Unfortunately, it has become a worrisome signpost towards what happens when we reach, as Francis Fukuyama is quoted in last week’s New...
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Weekend Reads: Nov 6
During this upcoming week in the United States there will be the 58th presidential election of which the two major candidates contending for holding that office will be former Secretary of State...
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How to Topple an Institution
Do you remember what you parents used to tell you before you went to school? “It’s okay to be yourself. Don’t try to be like everybody else. If your friend says they’re going to jump off the Brooklyn...
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Inside each and every one of us, even in perhaps the tiniest of measures, is an ego-driven narcissistic dictator who thrives on control. Games like Sim City or Civilization were built for that deeply...
View ArticlePracticing Thought Leadership
Therapists will often make a distinction between the statements “you are a bad person” and “you are a person who did a bad thing.” That dovetails very nicely with this article up on Brainpickings...
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Handling Radical Uncertainty
Radical uncertainty is, if you steal the definition from Rumsfield, “the unknown, unknown” – or, if you steal the definition from an economist, “that which you cannot model for” because, in classic...
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