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Technology is the Problem
An alternative cause for the Great Stagnation: the cargo cult company
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The Case Against Work-Life Balance: Owning Your Future
Chose life over balance to own your future.
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What Money Can't Buy
Solving the crisis of implementation
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There is no process. It will be painful.
Criticisms of Replicator reveal a dangerous worship of process over content
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What Happened to the American Cinematic Universe?
Cold War II is a culture war, too.
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Viva La Revolución!
Embracing the 36th Chamber of Shaolin.
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The Jagged Intelligence of Genius
Epistemic Humility: Are we repeating the errors of the Nuclear Age?
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Gamma Radiation: The Incredible Hulk As a Model for Personal Growth
Real growth is scary, hard, periodic, and responsive to your environment.
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1776 The Ultimate Story of Entrepreneurship
America’s founding has much to teach entrepreneurs of all varieties.
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David is not Goliath, and should not be
When you are doing something truly disruptive, you are in a David versus Goliath situation (and this is especially true for technology). The story of…
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Innovation needs Customers, not Capital.
“Selling R&D to the government is like taking your venture capital and putting it into a savings account. Venturing is venturing. You want to take the…
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Position and Portfolio
We're all familiar with stories of leaders not scaling because they couldn't delegate. But we should be more worried about leaders losing their…
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