The Science of Mental Toughness (And How to Get More of It)

Have you ever wondered what makes someone a good athlete? Or a good leader? Or a good parent? Why do some people accomplish their goals while others fail?

FIFA: The Ultimate Gold Digger 

How the 2022 Qatar World Cup debacle is exposing FIFA’s recklessness

BRANDING ≠ BULLSHIT

WHY BRANDING SHOULD MATTER TO ENTREPRENEURS

The following is an…

How To Say Goodbye To The Past

This is what you hate: when you’re about 20 feet away from a door and someone walks through it and then…

A Crazy Idea: “A Kickstopper Platform, where people pay artists to stop what they're doing.”

Why Activists Shouldn’t Worry About Being Popular

Contrary to a recent study, it’s not such a terrible…

FALSE CHOICE AND CLIMATE CHANGE

I have come to believe that there is a false choice represented in the debate around climate change these days. On the one hand, we are told, we may choose environmental conservation and productive moderation. And on the other, we are told, we may choose social and…

Don’t Buy the Gold iPhone

a PSA from someone who isn’t even an iPhone user

Gold iPhones are flying off the shelf faster than Apple/their suppliers can produce them. All of my friends are clamoring to buy one, yet I grimace and politely tell them why…

Silk Road’s “Safe Haven” Fallacy

It was never an online Amsterdam

Kanban Can Not Save You From The Engineering Death Spiral

If this is familiar, your software co is in…

Being Better Off Doesn’t Mean We Shouldn’t Want To Improve

Hey Dad,

The Joy of the Connector

A response to Lane Wood’s post on The Curse of the Connector.

Why We Share

Pushing San Francisco Culture Forward

AdStagram vs InstaCommerce

According to its site, Instagram is a “fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends and family.” And that’s great! But Instagram just announced that they will be introducing ads into the user’s experience, is the best model Instagram could use to generate revenue?

Bitcoins : First step towards Digital Economy! 

 World is moving towards the digitization of our…

Blackberry, Nokia and the ‘PAP-less’ world

Will Singapore slide down the path of no return, just like…

Don’t be too quick to fail fast

Sometimes small redesigns aren’t worth it

Why I Love John Hope Franklin

My Hero and Inspiration

John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 — March 25, 2009) was a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the…

Top Six Reasons Why the Collapse of the U.S. Government Would Be a Good/Bad Thing

Think about it.

C the dots.

See the dots & Connect the dots.

“Our brain is always trying to align our outer world with…

Should You Run for Political Office? Take the Test.

Most men fail. So many temptations.

Political scandal is always in the news. From groping mayors (Bob Filner) to jailed Congressmen (Jesse Jackson, Jr.) to the simply absurd (Anthony Weiner)…

Takeaways in the long form

I stood in line outside Dogpatch Labs last Thursday and silently did a fist pump. After watching almost all the…

There Is No Magical Solution to the Debt Ceiling.

Now Stop it.

’Shopping the Shutdown II

Absurd quotes by Sen. Ted Cruz, House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor are pushing us toward a debt-ceiling catastrophe. 

Listening To Users.

How a basic app taught me what it means.

Dear Professor:

An open rant to instructors everywhere