Health Tip: Find Purpose in Life - The Atlantic
So some of the roughly $3.8 trillion in U.S. medical spending could be defrayed, it seems, with purposeful cultivation of community and meaning. Only…
Engineering Serendipity
I’d like to tell the story of a paradox: How do we bring the right people to the right place at the right time to discover something new, when we…
Farnam Street Blog - decision making and quotes
I have a fairly simple objective: I want to go to bed each night smarter than when I woke up. I also want to live a meaningful life and become a…
A Network to Build a Dream On
But peer networks, Mr. Johnson emphasizes, "are much older than the Internet." The creativity of the Renaissance, he asserts, was catalyzed by the…
Why Our Complex World Needs Connective Leadership
“Diversity trumps ability” as a sufficiently diverse, large group of non-experts often outperforms a small group of experts,” found Future Perfect…
Around The World In 20 Experiences: The Ultimate Bucket List
At some point in the past century, we got bored with ordinary vacations and started searching for the extraordinary. Summiting the world's highest…
Big data is better data
Kenneth Cukier is the Data Editor of The Economist. From 2007 to 2012 he was the Tokyo correspondent, and before that, the paper’s technology…
Tom Peters on leading the 21st-century organization
Lou Gerstner has this wonderful passage in his book that says something to the effect of, “When I came to IBM I was a guy who believed in strategy…