A Berry Gone Sour: The Demise of RIM and BlackBerry
StartFragmentHey, remember BlackBerry? In this day and age, it's basically the smartphone equivalent of asking about digital watches or...
Stereotype Threat, or, Secret Messages and You
One of the most disorienting ideas in Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow is just how susceptible...
Grab a Free Hour: a How-To
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had an extra hour in each day? Imagine how much more you could get done with another 60 minutes of free time....
The Achilles' Heel in Your Thinking
Have you ever wondered why some people—and maybe we’re talking about you—are so adamant about some things? It might be a political...
The Twain Brain, or, Why Smart People do Stupid Things
StartFragment “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” So said Mark Twain, printer, steamboat...
Saving Grandma, or: 5 Steps to Dealing With Complex Systems
Last week’s blog dealt with the inherent threat in complex systems, specifically your Grandmother, (or really, anybody’s Grandma) and...
The Lowdown on Luck
“Good luck!” It’s a common expression in our lexicon. Obviously, on a gut level we have some sense of the importance of luck—that is,...
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Are You Under its Spell?
When it comes to brain biases, one that gets an awful lot of play is the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It's a phenomenon demonstrated by many...
Cause and Correlation, or the Pirate Problem
As you can see from the above graph, global warming is pirate-based. It's something I think we all suspected, but were hesitant to...
How to Run Your Company Like Da Vinci
It's hard to overestimate the power of whole-brain thinking. Sometimes defined as "systems thinking", it occurs when your creative right...
