Someone tells you they thought about it for a long time before they landed where they landed. Whether that sentence helps them depends largely on whether you agree with where they landed.
That is the finding in a paper by...
I’d bet that 9 out of 10 founders reading this would likely agree with me. But take a scroll down LinkedIn Lane on any given day and you’ll find a sea of suspiciously similar-looking posts framed as unique perspectives....
“What do you think of this?”
That is the last message in one version of an experiment funded by the University of California, Berkeley. It goes to a friend you don’t know all that well, a couple of texts into...
The proposed digital duty of care legislation would hold social media companies to greater account for content on their platforms. Opposition leader Angus Taylor said the Coalition had yet to see the proposal but warned against efforts to “censor...
A friend told me last month, on a rooftop in Bangkok with the traffic grinding away eight floors below, that she sometimes imagines getting on a plane and simply not coming back. Then she apologised. Actually apologised, to me,...
Somewhere on the internet right now there is a photograph of two 61-year-old women sitting side by side. They are identical twins. One of them looks about a decade older. The caption travelling with it usually claims one twin...
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...
