Just about all sabotage is self-sabotage. We don’t get forced to eat that cookie, we choose to. And so the diet is ended. Marketing self-sabotage is fascinating to watch and understand. Consider the college application: it’s primarily an opportunity for…

That’s what makes it a monster. In fact, when you look the monster in the eye, when you calmly and carefully inspect the actual monster, you discover that he’s not so bad after all. It’s just the shadow that’s scary….

Paco Underhill on women and retail. Nancy Lublin on learning from causes. Noah Boyd with an FBI thriller beach read. Better than the last Reacher novel, imho. And stunningly elegant (and lovely to hold) pottery inspired by some of my…

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100 people doing something at the same time has far more power than 300 people doing it over time. We unconsciously amplify the power of coordination when we consider the impact of actions. If there’s a thousand people waiting outside…

The wifi Kindle, $139. Drop the first digit and you’re on to something. And it only took them six weeks!

The cost of being first is higher than it’s ever been… It’s entirely possible that you’re racing. Racing to the market with a new product or a news story or a decision or an innovation. The race keeps getting faster,…

If you work out on a weight machine that has a limit–where you have to push the bar until it stops–you’re far more likely to to hit that limit than if you had left it to your own initiative to…

The only problems you have left are the perfect ones. The imperfect ones, the ones with a clearly evident solution, well, if they were important, you’ve solved them already. It’s the perfect problems that keep us stuck. Perfect because they…

When a newspaper loses 15% of its readers or 15% of its advertisers, it goes out of business. There are still people who want to read it, still people who want to advertise, but it’s gone. When a technology company…