If a dictator was overtaking your land, would you burn it to spite him? That’s just what happened in 1812 when Napoleon was on an aggressive campaign through Russia. The Russians assumed a unique but mutually harmful defense strategy: burn down villages, towns and crops, preventing Napoleons troops from living off their land. They killed…

Benefits of scaling an operation you’ve been in on the ground level: a holistic view with context. You have a really good understanding of the business You made mistakes and gained valuable learned into the why behind necessary changes You have a better understanding of what each role is like You know what departments work…

Gary Becker and Luis Rayo at the University of Chicago combined a variety of fields from psychology and brain science into an algorithm that describes a trap most economists believe is endemic (not pandemic, it’s 2021 now!) to our species. They crowned this algorithm “The Happiness Function” to explain the physiological process that both fuels…

Have you ever been disappointed after meeting someone who’s work you admired? Why? What changed? Upon further reflection you might realize that it was because you admired their accomplishments not their characteristics. Don’t get me wrong, accomplishments are great, and you may still admire what they’ve been able to achieve, but that doesn’t mean that…

Malcolm Gladwell recently challenged my perspective on GDP, Gross Domestic Product, and whether that was a good measure for a country’s success. GDP tells a small story: the monetary value of all finished goods and services made within a country during a specific period. And although that can be a good indicator of the value…