Black Swans being unpredictable, we need to adjust to their existence (rather than naively try to predict them). There are so many things we can do if we focus on antiknowledge, or what we do not know. Among many other benefits, you can set yourself up to collect serendipitous Black Swans (of the positive kind) … Read More
“Ulysses”: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
Things to Do in the Belly of the WhaleDan Albergotti Measure the walls.Count the ribs.Notch the long days.Look up for blue sky through the spout.Make small fires with the broken hulls of fishing boats.Practice smoke signals.Call old friends, and listen for echoes of distant voices.Organize your calendar.Dream of the beach.Look each wayfor the dim glow … Read More
A highly influential book for me in designing Automattic was Daniel Pink’s Drive, where he eloquently introduces the three things that really matter in motivating people: mastery, purpose, and autonomy. Mastery is the urge to get better skills. Purpose is the desire to do something that has meaning, that’s bigger than yourself. These first two principles physically co-located companies can be … Read More
The anthropologist Clifford Geertz defined culture as a collective act of interpretation, the stories we tell one another about ourselves in an attempt to make ongoing sense of why we do what we do. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/wework-coworking-office-space.html
In military science, Force multiplication or a force multiplier refers to a factor or a combination of factors that gives personnel or weapons (or other hardware) the ability to accomplish greater things than without it. The expected size increase required to have the same effectiveness without that advantage is the multiplication factor. For example, if a certain technology like GPS enables a force to accomplish … Read More
When you leave New York City for New Jersey, you enter a malarial swamp of highways and cloverleafs. When you leave New York City for Long Island, you enter a bottle that is a hundred miles deep, full of strip malls and muscleheads. But when you leave New York City for Fairfield County, taking I-95 … Read More
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