In The Book of Five Rings, he notes the difference between observing and perceiving. The perceiving eye is weak, he wrote; the observing eye is strong. Musashi understood that the observing eye sees s...
In 1948, long before the louder, faster, and busier world of Twitter and social media, Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert Merton wrote: The interested and informed citizen can congratulate himself on his loft...
Eventually, all of us will pass away and slowly be forgotten. We should enjoy this brief time we have on earth—not be enslaved to emotions that make us miserable and dissatisfied.
As Gavin de Becker writes in The Gift of Fear, When you worry, ask yourself, ‘What am I choosing to not see right now?’ What important things are you missing because you chose worry over introspection...
Amazon, for its part, has a couple of other easy suggestions for you if the advice write a hypothetical press release doesn’t quite work for your situation. Their CTO, Werner Vogels, suggests trying t...
According to the story, the most powerful predictor of virality is how much anger an article evokes [emphasis mine]. I will say it again: The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
A critical test of any product: Does it have a purpose? Does it add value to the world? How will it improve the lives of the people who buy it?