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There are thousands of ways to express encouragement and enthusiasm and support. Few of them require a blood oath or even much inconvenience. “I’m thrilled...

Making change happen

One way to do it is to get people to want what you want. The other way is to help them get what they want...

Opening the pod bay door

A brand new episode of Akimbo this week, all about artificial intelligence. Part one of of two on mediocrity and the choices we’re going to...

Rethinking the Sports-Industrial Complex

School sports can have some valuable outputs: And yet, many schools act as if all they have is a trophy shortage. They bench kids who...

Avoid unnecessary amplifiers

This is extremely unique vs This is unique I’m very upset vs I’m upset and I love you a ton vs I love you Sometimes,...

The Hegelochus lesson

More than 2,000 years ago, an actor in Greece botched a line in a play. In an inflection error, he said “weasel” when he meant...

Flashing on contempt

It doesn’t have to happen with intent, in fact, it rarely does. Micro-emotions appear on our face and then disappear in less than a second....

There are lots of books on creating cooking, photography, writing and music. But they can’t possibly help you do better until you see and taste...

The rules are pretty consistent: We’re all creators now. Podcasting, videoing, photographing, spreadsheeting… and we’re building a foundation of valuable data as we go. The...

All successful cultural change (books, movies, public health), has a super-simple two-step loop: AWARENESSTENSION– >Loop