The Outsider's Advantage
In their book Super Thinking, Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann write: "There is a reason why many startup companies that disrupt...
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- Feb 18, 2020
- 6 min
The Status Game
RBC First-Year Analyst Gets Probation for Insider Trading January 17, 2020 "A junior analyst at RBC Capital Markets who racked up tens of...
- Feb 3, 2020
- 3 min
Who do you know here?
"Who do you know here?" * Have you ever felt excluded? Or – in certain situations – that you don't quite "belong?" Maybe your significant...
- Jan 19, 2020
- 2 min
The Day Teaches the Day
Chuckie: Let me tell you what I do know. Every day I come by to pick you up. And we go out we have a few drinks, and a few laughs and...
- Jan 14, 2020
- 6 min
The Art of Investing in Yourself
Just as the biggest gains in your bank account over time come from financial investments – in stocks, bonds, and various funds, the...
- Jan 2, 2020
- 2 min
Embrace Your Weirdness
Lizzo: 2019's "defining star", a rapper, a singer, an icon, and a pretty awesome weirdo. * I don't think many people like getting called...
- Dec 18, 2019
- 5 min
The tools that shape us
"We shape our tools, and therefore they shape us." – John Culkin * Imagine asking twenty random strangers to name a single technology...
- Nov 25, 2019
- 4 min
For the brain, less can be more
"Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy" – Eagles, "Take It Easy" (1972) * When managing my...
- Nov 14, 2019
- 4 min
Plant the Seeds
Willy: Tell me – is there a seed store in the neighborhood? Stanley: Seeds? You mean like to plant? Willy: Yes. Carrots, peas... Stanley:...
- Nov 4, 2019
- 8 min
Adam Neumann's Sly Alchemy
Adam Neumann, co-founder and former CEO of WeWork, has a lot more in common with an infamous 16th century alchemist than you'd expect:...
- Oct 18, 2019
- 6 min
Happiness: It's Always a Work in Progress
Alice looked round her in great surprise. "Why, I do believe we’ve been under this tree the whole time! Everything’s just as it was!" "Of...
- Sep 29, 2019
- 5 min
A Much Needed Shake-Up
Ingenium mala saepe movent "Difficulty is what wakes up the genius." – Ovid * On November 18, 1987, a passenger exiting the Kings Cross...
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