Recently I’ve been obsessed with ‘the cost of being King’. I keep coming across potential role models who have achieved extraordinary success. The one other thing they have in common? Divorce / a series of failed relationships. So what comes first — the chicken or the egg? Whenever we see someone...
Society makes us think individualism is the answer. Platforms and algorithms inadvertently create steep power-law distributions, and only a precious few see the promised land of creative freedom and personal wealth. What if, frankly, this is only natural when we primarily operate in a way that is unnatural. Humans are...
Society makes us think individualism is the answer. Platforms and algorithms inadvertently create steep power-law distributions, and only a precious few see the promised land of creative freedom and personal wealth. What if, frankly, this is only natural when we primarily operate in a way that is unnatural. Humans are...
In a famous experiment, Professor Robert Rosenthal asked teachers to rate certain students as being "very bright" or "intellectually capable." The teachers were told that their ratings would be compared with the students' actual IQ scores. In reality, the children's IQs had been randomly selected and assigned before they took...
In a famous experiment, Professor Robert Rosenthal asked teachers to rate certain students as being "very bright" or "intellectually capable." The teachers were told that their ratings would be compared with the students' actual IQ scores. In reality, the children's IQs had been randomly selected and assigned before they took...
This week I'm sharing notes from my journal on how Lebron James navigates life games, and how we can do the same in life and work. It's a follow up to last week's newsletter.
