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A silhouette of a person playing the trumpet symbolizes jazzy leadership, overlaid on a blue and white world map with radiating lines and data points.
Business
What all leaders can learn from jazz-inspired military trailblazers
In most organizations, contradictions are treated as problems to be fixed. But what if they’re actually the point?
Jeff DeGraff
Book cover of "Delivering the WOW" by Richard Fain next to a text graphic that says "an excerpt from Richard Fain" on a purple background.
Business
How Royal Caribbean transformed innovation with a weird acronym
Richard Fain — Chairman and former CEO of Royal Caribbean Group — explains how a tongue-twister helped boost his company’s fortunes.
Richard Fain
Book cover of "A CEO for All Seasons: Mastering the Cycles of Leadership" by Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Vikram Malhotra, and Kurt Strovink is displayed next to the text "an excerpt from," highlighting insights on CEO success.
Business
The 4 essential ingredients for “new CEO” success
Why the best CEOs make their first year both a personal transition and a profound moment of institutional renewal — with this quartet of skills.
Carolyn Dewar
Illustration of three stylized human brains in orange, pink, and green, each with abstract wave patterns inside, overlapping at their edges.
Mini Philosophy
The sci-fi hypothesis that explains why you click with certain people
You may actually be on the same wavelength.
Jonny Thomson
Book cover for "In Praise of the Office: The Limits to Hybrid and Remote Work" featuring a red chair with a laptop, highlighting how meaningful work flourishes, next to "an excerpt from" on an orange background.
Business
Is your office dead? Put BOND on the case
How to foster a workplace environment where employees want to be present, rather than feel forced to be there.
Peter Cappelli
The image features the book cover of "The Devil Emails at Midnight" by Mita Mallick alongside text reading "an excerpt from" on a purple and beige background, hinting at themes like toxic positivity within its pages.
Business
3 signs your boss is high on “toxic positivity”
What happens when your boss decides to weaponize positivity in the workplace?
Mita Mallick
A collage features a man in academic regalia at a podium, a black-and-white rural village, ants, and the words “THE NIGHTCRAWLER” in bold text at the top, evoking the art of reason amid contrasting scenes.
Business
Meet the philosopher outsmarting me since kindergarten
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
A book cover for "The Storyteller’s Advantage" by Christina Farr is displayed next to the words "an excerpt from" on a split purple and light gray background, reminiscent of the style favored by Alexis Ohanian.
Business
Channel the storytelling genius of Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian
Alexis Ohanian didn’t treat his relationships with the media as purely transactional — and his star rose in spectacular fashion.
Christina Farr
A black-and-white portrait of JoJo Simmons is centered between an image of a film camera on the left and a close-up of a hand adjusting audio mixing controls on the right.
Business
How to lead by listening: What growing up on MTV taught JoJo Simmons
Reality TV star, music producer, and serial entrepreneur JoJo Simmons on the power of listening and the massive benefits of switching off.
Tim Brinkhof
A minimalist drawing of a duck outlined in white against a gradient background, with an orange star shape marking the eye, invites you to question your perception.
The Learning Curve
Why you should always question your perceptions
“Who ya gonna believe: me or your own eyes?” Until you can assess your perception, the answer should be neither.
Kevin Dickinson
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13.8
6 questions about consciousness with Annaka Harris
A conversation with Annaka Harris on shared perception, experimental science, and why our intuition about consciousness is wrong.
Adam Frank
A person in a suit holds up a NOAA map showing the forecast track and intensity of Hurricane Dorian, reminding us that, unlike Einstein, we can't change the facts—only prepare for them—in an office setting.
Starts With A Bang
Einstein’s famous “change the facts” quote is an insidious lie
Einstein is credited with saying, "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." What he actually said has a very different meaning.
Ethan Siegel
The image shows the cover of the book "Me, My Customer & AI" by Henrik Werdelin and Nicholas Thorne alongside the text "an excerpt from," set on a split blue and green background, hinting at the future of headless agents in business.
Business
How Dell’s membrane paved the way for “headless agents”
In the post-AI startup landscape, the role of the entrepreneur will evolve from operator to orchestrator. Are you ready?
Henrik Werdelin
An older man with white hair and a suit receives a document from another man in a robe during an event, as several people look on in the background. In the age of viral misquotes, capturing such moments accurately becomes ever more crucial.
High Culture
Einstein didn’t say that: How viral misquotes evolve and replicate
From Einstein to Twain, Garson O’Toole investigates the truth behind your favorite — and often misattributed — quotes.
Kevin Dickinson
A man in historical clothing nails a document featuring a cartoon animal face—a nod to popular memes—to a wooden door, while two others watch.
Mini Philosophy
What makes a meme take off? The 3 rules of virality
One does not simply make a meme go viral.
Jonny Thomson
A human silhouette filled with birds and insects is overlaid with a circular target, binary code, and abstract shapes against a sky background with clouds.
The Well
Social media supercharged our disagreements. Could AI help us resolve them?
Duke sociologist Dr. Christopher Bail on the tech’s potential to foster empathy in an age of division.
Christopher Bail
John Templeton Foundation
Book cover of "After the Idea: What It Really Takes to Create and Scale a Startup" by Julia Austin, beside text reading "an excerpt from" on an orange background, highlighting insights on building stellar hires.
Business
Founders: The hiring strategy that can turn scrappy to stellar
If you want the best shot at long-term success, it can pay to supplement hot-shots with seasoned industry veterans.
Julia Austin
Book cover for "The Generalist Advantage" by Mansoor Soomro, PhD, next to text reading "an excerpt from," all set against a light green background—highlighting the value of generalist superpowers.
Business
The 6 superpowers of generalists: Leadership gold dust
From Apple to Airbnb to OpenAI the generalist mindset has been an invaluable source of advantage — and we can all learn from these successes.
Mansoor Soomro
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