First things first: despite any cartoons you might’ve seen, ostriches don’t try to hide from danger by burying their heads in the sand. F...

Imagine that, on the second morning of a business trip, you go to unzip your suitcase, only to realize you forgot to pack any pants. With...

Let’s say you’re reading up on landmark Supreme Court decisions of the past decade. (Hey, everybody needs hobbies.) You’re skimming an ar...

"What is the most resilient parasite?” asks Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2011 movie Inception. “Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?” Befor...

Irrational behavior is commonplace in sports. Michael Jordan wore his "lucky" University of North Carolina practice shorts under his Chic...

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...

Last week’s blog dealt with the inherent threat in complex systems, specifically your Grandmother, (or really, anybody’s Grandma) and cor...

Imagine your grandma just celebrated her 85th birthday. She's beginning to forget things, but her doctor has reassured you that since, if...

Unlike Calvin here, most of us will probably never get the opportunity to have a face-to-face conversation between our current selves and...

Are you lying to yourself every day? Depends: are you a "Bayesian Updater?" Hopefully you are. The term is named after Reverend Thomas Ba...

Do you suffer from Systems Blindness? You almost certainly do. The problem is that your brain’s hardwiring is designed primarily to keep ...

You stumble out of the wilderness, having had no contact with humans for at least ten days. You’re weak from hunger and fatigue and you f...

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 st...

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 advan...

Last week, I talked about whole brain strategy. This week, a look at what happens inside a workplace when a company or organization tries...

It's hard to overestimate the power of whole-brain thinking. Sometimes defined as "systems thinking", it occurs when your creative right ...

Buyer's remorse is a terrible thing. It occurs when you have the realization that you've bought the wrong thing and now you can't return ...

"Metric" is a kind of sexed up word for measurement, popular among the corporate crowd. The interesting thing about "metric" is that it ...

Last year, roughly 40,000 people died in automobile crashes on America's highways. This is a tragic number, but it has been much worse in...