"Execution is everything." The answer to the question, "why is the world filled with so much crap?" At work, *doing* is the monomaniacal metric of performance. No one cares about anything as long as you are doing shit. It's why workplaces have portable toilets known as meetings. When you don't know what to do with … Continue reading The end of work

You don't know Mileva Marić-Ajnštajn. Maric changed the face of contemporary science and you have no clue who she is. In fact, no one really knows what happened to her, which is both a shame and apropos of our existential legacies. Mileve Maric was a nerd, a mathematician and a physicist. At 22, she was … Continue reading The face with a thousand heroes

Ape. A million years later. Human. No one's really sure what happened. Two dramatic changes: brains ballooned, backs straightened. The reason evolution is unfathomable (if you consider it) is that only a small group came to look like you. The rest continued as apes. A few people, somewhat blasphemously, wanted to understand how this played … Continue reading Rethinking work

Why your ideas suck and what to do about them.

"Find your passion and let it kill you."
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

The notion of a single passion or purpose can be unnerving. The two concepts have grown into something unpleasantly large and abstract. Passion and purpose, as you will see throughout this essay, are often used interchangeably. Their meanings are hazy. They involve much effort for little certainty. And the debate over their usefulness is unsettled. Yet … Continue reading How to Find Your Passion

The reason we are falling down so much.