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Good Enough

Spare a thought for the poor guppy fish, who lives a miserable existence but teaches us something important about forecasting.

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Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World

An irony of studying history is that we often know exactly how a story ends, but have no idea where…

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Big Beliefs

A trick to learning a complicated topic is realizing how many complex details are a cousin of something simple.

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Rare Skills

Three rare and powerful skills…

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Reality Catches Up

An asset you don’t deserve can quickly become a liability.

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Breaking Points

Two weeks ago, Mitt Romney wrote an opinion piece in The Atlantic titled, “America Is in Denial”.

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Breaking Down A Tesla

Tesla has single-handedly transformed the landscape of the automobile industry worldwide in less than two decades.

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Tails, You Win

Steamboat Willie put Walt Disney on the map as an animator.

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Little Ways The World Works

If you find something that is true in more than one field, you’ve probably uncovered something particularly important.

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Lifestyles

Fifty-four years ago this month, in a push for publicity, The Sunday Times offered £5,000 to whoever could sail solo…

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Wealth vs. Getting Wealthier

Will Smith writes in his biography that…

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The Playbook

Maverick is back and given the Top Gun sequel has raked in more than $800 million to date, it is…

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Keep It Going

A quick story about athletes and investors.

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Too Far

Every good idea and every admirable trait can be taken too far.

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Different Kinds of BS

There are three important facts about bullshit: It’s everywhere, it’s influential, and it’s dangerous.

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Endless Uncertainty

The night before the D-Day invasion, a nervous Franklin Roosevelt asked his wife Eleanor how she felt about not knowing…

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Obvious Things That Easily Escape Attention

Dr. Watson walks into a room, and Sherlock Holmes instantly accuses him of hanging out in the club all day.

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Trying Too Hard

Thomas McCrae was a young 19th Century doctor still unsure of his skills.

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The Rise After the Fall

Two weeks ago, I was scheduled to attend an annual meeting in Chicago.

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