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Not “amateur” as in the unprepared professional.Amateur as in the passionate individual, untrained but with something to say.If you’re ...

Paradigm shifts are appealing but rarely well executed.A paradigm is our mental model of the world. We’re surrounded by people who share a ...

In Steven Pressfield’s classic The War of Art, he introduces the idea of Resistance. It’s the internal force that keeps us from doing our most ...

Not all tech is new tech.The ballpoint pen was a revelation, and a bit controversial. Now, it’s disposable and obvious.Different ...

Everyone knows what it is to be conscious, and we imagine that other people are also aware. That we have a voice in our heads, apparent agency ...

To win a Nobel prize a hundred years ago, you might only need a legal pad and a few pencils.Today, it takes millions of dollars, scores of ...

And those are the two challenges of anyone seeking to make an impact.First, we get distracted by the inclination to make the group as big as ...

Water flows downhill, and tech solves the easy problems first.After the launch of Amazon and Google, when smartphones reached critical mass, ...

Complicated problems have a solution, and the solution can often be found by breaking the complicated portions into smaller pieces.And ...