My friend Mark Moore, founder and CEO of MANA Nutrition, and one of the most amazing human beings around, recently pointed me to an Elon Musk quote which first made me chuckle and then made me realize that this is the single-most…

Swiss-born graphic designer and blogger par-excellence Tina Roth Eisenberg (Swiss Miss) recently posted a YouTube link to a talk from American philosopher Alan Watts.

In the first couple of minutes Watts beautifully sums up what has been my life philosophy all along:

On November 19th, 2012, just before Thanksgiving, I sent out an email with the subject line “So let’s get this party started…” to a couple of friends. It marked the start of what became The Heretic).

Yesterday I asked my incredible wife Jane what I should write about (Jane is my go-to person when I have writer’s block). Instead of giving me a specific topic, she used her coaching kung-fu skills and turned my innocuous question into a rabbit hole of self-discovery:

Two days ago Laurence D. Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, one of the most influential investors in the world, sent a letter to the CEOs of the world’s largest companies, informing them that if their companies do not positively contribute to society, BlackRock will not provide…

Innovation theory teaches you that the value of innovation outcomes follows a typical normal/bell curve distribution: Some ideas turn out to be crap, most are okay, and a few are positive outliers which turn into the disruptors of their respective industries. These outliers create what investment…

My former boss at Mozilla, John Lilly, used to preface his presentations with a note that stated that “there are no maps.” He then extended the notion that there are, of course, maps — but that they are never yours. I’ve picked up this idea twice on The Heretic (here and here).