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Untie Your Tethers

A handful of workmen stoke a smoky fire of damp straw and rags, and a giant heap of painted cloth ...

A Doctor and a Drummer Walk Into a Bar

A nurse is halfway through changing an IV bag when a monitor starts beeping down the hall. She hustles over, ...

Tuning In to Micro-Signals

Trader Joe's brings out the worst in my self-discipline. I show up with a carefully planned list and a goal ...

The $860,000 Mattress

A craftsman pulls a clump of curly horsetail hair from a pile, teases it apart with his fingers like a ...

The Bigger Question About AI

Like many of us, when I read last week's credible reports that AI could eradicate all human life within the ...

The Power of Making Mistakes

I've long believed there should be a mandatory class for all middle schoolers called Making Mistakes. When we were in ...

Redesigning Roadblocks

The team is called into the conference room to pitch ideas on how to solve the company's latest problem. There's ...

11 Questions Legendary Inventors Ask

Inside a smoky control room a few hundred feet from the Berlin Wall, a group of musicians sit slumped on ...

The Friday Ritual Behind a Multibillion Dollar Culture

(Yes, it involves a chili pepper emoji.) It was a Friday afternoon, and Erin Ozolins was debating whether to share ...

The Limits of Grit

Grit it out. Grind harder. Push through. Be bulletproof. Look at the language we've built around good professional work. Nearly ...