Entropy is a word that sounds scientific enough to be safely ignored by most. A physics term, yes. A classroom idea, maybe. Something about heat death and disorder that has […]
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What Really Motivates Us to Work
Social incentive to work versus monetary incentive to work We’re all familiar with the paradigm of a monetary incentive to work. It’s, basically, the way a society motivates its citizens […]
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Welcome to the Age of Agency
Once again, I find myself opining on something I heard in a YouTube video recently. The age of knowledge is over.This is the age of agency. I’ve talked a lot, […]
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Surrender Is Not An Option
As the economy continues to worsen, the old system of get a job → cash your paycheck → live your life is going to become less and less common. And […]
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Content People Are Just Broken Consumers
As all great essays generally start (lol), I heard something very interesting on a YouTube podcast. I wish I could say that I was a voracious reader, but unfortunately, I’m […]
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From Mad Men to Influencers: How the Dream Ate Us
I don’t think Mad Men was ever really about nostalgia. I mean, It looked nostalgic. The suits. The cocktails. The cigarettes smoked ironically. But underneath it all was the warning […]
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The Map That Ate the Territory
Once upon a time – long, long ago – symbols pointed to things that actually existed. We knew what reality was. Or at least, we thought we did. We were […]
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Real Wealth Isn’t Monetary or Physical. It’s Social
I know. I hear it too. It sounds naive. Like something you’d find printed in cursive above an old hippie’s kitchen sink. But let’s not be quick to dismiss the […]
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Innovate or Die
I just finished watching the movie Jobs. It’s a very loose retelling of Steve Jobs and the early days of Apple, and if there’s anyone who has personified the word […]
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Why Community Builders Should Read “Leading Change” by John Kotter
Most people in the community-building game don’t think of themselves as “change managers.” Most of us are not sitting in corner offices with PowerPoint decks and consultants. We’re generally sitting […]