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A Japanese Ritual to Improve Your Habits

In the early 1900s, an aging Japanese steam train engineer named Yasoichi Hori was growing increasingly concerned about his deteriorating eyesight. Hori's job relied o...

I Think I'm Having a Reverse Midlife Crisis

I think I'm having a midlife crisis." That's what my friend, who I'll call Joe, said to me at dinner a few weeks ago. Joe is in his early-40s. He's had a good career o...

The IKEA Effect: Why Effort Still Counts

Why do you value the things you build yourself so much more than anything you can buy? In this episode, I share a personal story from my first apartment and break down...

Stop Making a 5-Year Plan (Do This Instead)

"So, what's your 5-year plan?" That was the question posed to me by a mentor in January 2021. At the time, I was about seven years into my career, on the "track" in fi...

How to Avoid Catastrophe: The Normalization of Deviance

On January 27, 1986, just 16 hours before the Space Shuttle Challenger was set to launch, an engineer named Roger Boisjoly presented data showing a catastrophic risk w...

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