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How to do things better. Mental tools, self-improvement, business.
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Corporate Email: Mostly but not always dreary
Here are two emails from my workplace, normally notable for its lack of quirkiness. Good morning Hope you are all well. Just in case you…
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One Argument is Better than Two: The case for honest arguments
People have to eat, and some of what they eat is meat. As with everything, there’s a tradeoff, in this case between animal welfare and…
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Temptation Avoided, Character Unproven: No virtue without struggle
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline Dwight Eisenhower Temptation is democratic, and it’s elitist. It’s democratic in that everyone experiences it: We…
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1933 and 2025: Weimar Germany doesn’t help us understand the current situation
To the degree it is possible for any one born in the 1980s, I have a sense for what occurred in Germany in the run-up…
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Greatness Can’t Be Planned: Grand strategies may be futile
No plan survives first contact with the enemy Helmuth von Moltke The plans are nothing, but the planning is everything Dwight Eisenhower I haven’t seen…
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Things Don’t Happen for a Reason: It’s hard to accept
We want to know why. My career is built around finding the causes for rare diseases. Human genetics, the field I trained and work in,…