In January 1998, the host of a syndicated quiz show signed away 74 acres of undeveloped ridge and canyon in the Hollywood Hills, and the transaction registered less as celebrity gesture than as a change in the map. Alex...
The setup
How long does a group have to exist before it has an inside?
Two people met in a text chatroom and spent five minutes discussing what would make someone a good airline pilot. A third person, the one who...
The romantic version of creativity begins with surrender. Stop controlling the mind, let it wander and wait for the strange idea to arrive.
The managerial version begins at the opposite end. Define the problem, evaluate every option and impose enough...
An alarm can be moved from 7am to 5.30am in a few taps. The body attached to it does not update quite so quickly.
That gap is where the familiar early-riser story tends to become a character test. A determined...
Sixty-five per cent of the American respondents and 62.1 per cent of the Chinese ones said people have become less considerate, helpful or cooperative over a sixty-year span reaching a few years into the future. Twenty-three per cent of...
A teacher in Greece opens a survey link and finds a student’s exercise on screen. Five parts, each already labelled correct or incorrect. Underneath sits a mark somebody else has given: five out of ten. The only thing left...
Canadian organizations may be eager to adopt artificial intelligence, but finding the capital to turn AI plans into working systems remains a challenge.
An upcoming virtual event from MacKay CEO Forums aims to help business leaders better understand the funding...
A man in my building told me last month that he has read everything I’ve published and has never once left a comment. He said it in the lift, somewhere between the ninth floor and the ground, in the...
There is a man on my floor who waters the corridor plants nobody asked him to water. He is eighty-six. Last month I watched a server at the noodle shop downstairs take his order, listen to it, then turn...
The qualities that help someone look like a leader are not always the qualities that help a particular team do its best work.
Talkativeness is visible. Assertiveness sounds like certainty. Someone who speaks readily, takes charge and occupies attention can...
