What is the biggest source of failed goals, dreams and ambitions? Is it luck? That you just didn’t have the right cards, and so there was nothing you could have done? Is it talent or method? If you were just smarter and used the right technique, you could have made it work? I’d like to […]

In North America, we give a lot of lip-service to the idea of non-conformity being a good thing. Think outside the box. Be a rebel. Don’t be a sheep. Except, in practice, people are extremely conformist. Think of all the things we do in, not because we thought for ourselves it was a good idea, […]

Alexis Ohanian, founder of Reddit, recently spoke out against what he calls “hustle porn”: “This idea that unless you are suffering, grinding, working every hour of every day, you’re not working hard enough … this is one of the most toxic, dangerous things in tech right now,” … “It’s such bullshit, such utter bullshit. It […]

A superstimulus is something that provides a sensory signal outside of the range we normally experienced in our ancestral environment. The classic example is chocolate cake. Chocolate cake is sweeter, fattier and more delicious than almost anything existing in nature. Fruit is usually more acidic. Honey doesn’t have any fats to balance the sweetness. The […]