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How do you get a million and a half people to read a blog post on tax policy? Obama digital wunderkind Teddy Goff has a simple mantra: don't be lame.

An investor-relations specialist, Laura Rittenhouse has compiled an annual survey of CEO shareholder letters since 1999 that ranks 100 big companies based on seemingly unquantifiable metrics relating to corporate culture […]

Economists were seduced by physics because it made their claims seem more scientific. Their belief was in the concept of equilibrium, in which it would be impossible to profit from […]

For some, the word ‘mastery’ conjures up images of medieval samurai or classical pianists. But Robert Greene, acclaimed author of Mastery, The 48 Laws of Power, and Seduction teaches that […]

When social comparison trickle into the decisions we make, it affects the way we think about the problem or the decision itself.

We see memes popping up all the time over the Internet. And yet, anything that bursts in isolation is not useful. It’s just interesting. What makes it useful and what […]

When it comes to improving your life and your career, it is essential to be able to properly evaluate your strengths and weaknesses.

We tend to get sidetracked because we are too confident in our own abilities.

The latest research is showing that kids who plan their own schedules, set their own work actually evaluate their own progress are actually building up their brains. Their cortexes are […]

"I’m not a philosophical megalomaniac," says Slavoj Žižek. Philosophy is not here to provide all of the answers. What it can do however, which is more powerful, is ask the […]

I assert that if you were depressed after learning and being exposed to the cosmic perspective, you started your day with an unjustifiably large ego.

Robert Kaplan argues that the keys to advancement in your career is taking risks, or "playing the game with some degree of abandon."

I am optimistic that religion is not strictly needed. But I cannot be a hundred percent sure because there is no human society where religion is totally absent so we […]

Fourth Graders seem to be able to do so much more than we give them credit for or even imagine they can.

Technology makes bombs and it can put us on Mars. Technology is neither good nor bad. It is a reflection of us.

Recognizing the gains of emerging markets like Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey is not just good manners. It’s good business.

Networking has come to take on negative connotations. Adam Rifkin was listed as Fortune’s best networker, with more connections on LinkedIn to the most powerful people in the world than […]

Robert Kaplan advises people to write down the story of their failures in order to make themselves aware of them.

On a day-to-day life in the colon is probably pretty mundane, says science writer Mary Roach.

Mastery is basically a form of intelligence that people reach after years of working in a field, years of practice, experience, some failure.