A new study suggests that words with front vowels are perceived to be closer, while back vowel words are further away. For example, you might...
To innovate, let go of the steering wheel (sometimes)
Management lessons from Instagram and Twitter
Instagram unlocks lots of powerful images and metaphors. Recently, a couple of images there really resonated with things I’ve been thinking about relative to how...
On running, writing and inspiration
Interweaving ideas from many writers, Nick Ripatrazone has a gorgeous meditation on the co-mingling among writing, running, meditation, innovation and inspiration. Called “Why Writers Run,” the Atlantic...
How to learn what people want (but don’t yet know they want)
“A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them,” Steve Jobs famously said about the importance of not depending on...
Startups are from Mars
Is The Martian, the hit movie about an astronaut stranded on Mars, actually an allegory of life in a tech startup? There is not much biographical narrative…