The Network Effect
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In 1816, a 19-year-old girl sat in a candlelit villa by Lake Geneva, surrounded by the most brilliant minds of…
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Cost-Benefit Analysis
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It’s 1975, and Richard Serra is standing in the middle of a New York warehouse, staring at a hulking…
Chunking
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In 1942, Francis Ford Coppola contracted polio. He was nine years old. Paralyzed on one side, stuck in bed for…
The Paradox of Choice
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Hemingway sat at his desk, rolling a fresh sheet of paper into his typewriter. He had a choice. A sentence.…
The Pygmalion Effect
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The sculptor stood alone in his studio, a sanctuary of shadows and dust. Pygmalion, a man who had fallen in…
The Innovator's Curse
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Imagine this: you're the first caveman to discover fire. Not just some accidental spark, but intentional, controlled flames…
Chesterton’s Fence
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It’s 1848, and Louis Pasteur is holed up in a dimly lit lab, surrounded by vials and beakers that…
The Curse of Knowledge
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There’s a story about Leonardo da Vinci that few people know. It's not the one about the…
The 10,000 Hour Rule
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Envision a dimly lit studio, the walls stained with sweat and coffee, where Jackson Pollock, a man possessed, flings paint…
The Black Swan Theory
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Picture Franz Kafka, hunched over his desk in a dimly lit room, his pen dancing feverishly across the paper. It’…
PrOACT
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Picture Charlotte Salomon, a young Jewish artist in Nazi-occupied France. Her world was crumbling—war, persecution, the constant threat of…
Via Negativa
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Paul Gauguin didn’t sail to Tahiti to find something new. He sailed there to escape, to leave behind the…