Walking away from the idée fixe
“It’s going to be exactly like THIS. It has to be, and I don’t want to hear otherwise. Don’t you believe in me?” The weddi…
“It’s going to be exactly like THIS. It has to be, and I don’t want to hear otherwise. Don’t you believe in me?” The weddi…
They sound similar, but they’re not. An arc, like an arch, is bent. The strength comes from that bend. But the arc doesn…
As dumb as selling shoes, an item that comes in 100s of sizes, over the internet. As dumb as expecting people to find a da…
Ironically enough, lottery thinking is a chronic problem. Lotteries of all sorts grab our attention and change our agenda.…
It’s a theater of status. Professional wrestling isn’t about wrestling, of course. It’s about who’s up and who’s down. The…
Ironically enough, lottery thinking is a chronic problem. Lotteries of all sorts grab our attention and change our agenda.…
It’s a theater of status. Professional wrestling isn’t about wrestling, of course. It’s about who’s up and who’s down. The…
When we say, “here, I made this,” we’re not seeking credit, we’re taking responsibility. To be seen, to learn, to own it, …
Why do cab drivers ask this question? It’s not like they can get to the airport any faster. It simply serves to create t…
If you make a laptop more powerful, the battery life will suffer and it will get heavier too. Trade-offs. If you make a …
It’s 2018, a special night out. The restaurant shouldn’t have been as disappointing as it was. The room was beautiful, the s…
Your team is down by a few points and the game is almost over. What play should you call? [When can we talk about the syst…
When a client or customer asks when a project is going to be done, an answer offered might be, “soon” or “shortly.” Frustr…
All of us believe things that might be inconsistent, not based on how the real world actually works or not shared by others.…
I’ve blogged many times about the chasm . That’s Geoffrey Moore’s term for the gap between the small part of the market po…
Most of the time, the phrase is, “it’s time to get back to work.” This means it’s time to stop being creative, stop dancin…
If you want to have an argument, to raise tempers or to distract, the easiest thing to do is start bringing up things that a…
“But why is this important?” When we encounter a fashion, a film or some other cultural artifact that the critical establi…
A friend shared a new business idea with me yesterday. Some business model questions came to mind, asked here rhetorically. …
People who are very good at Scrabble are not more kind, better judges of character, more facile with soft skills, better lon…