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That’s The Package is a rare, multigenerational film project built from lost and recovered Korean War footage, narrated by the original filmmaker and his wife, and completed seventy five years later by their grandson through original music and editing. At the center of the film is never before seen sixteen millimeter color footage shot in the early 1950s by Frank Ginsberg while serving as a cryptographer the Korean War….

How long do you give things a chance? Where do you stand on seeing your efforts through, versus cutting your losses and moving on? Because extremes in either direction are dangerous. On one hand, if we reflexively quit at the mere whiff of resistance or hardship, then we’ll never build any resilience. Habits of impatience and petulance and narrow mindedness will cause us to run any hide before we…

Humans have always been exquisite tool makers. Roughly two million years ago, our species first learned how to use objects to extend their ability to modify features of surrounding environments. Such crude but useful implements became the critical step in the evolution of mankind. How else do you think we climbed to the top of the food chain? Certainly wasn’t our rugged good looks or winning personality. But from…

There’s an entire strategy of product development centered around one simple fact about human beings. People don’t want to do hard things. They want things to be easy. And if companies can launch an affordable product that minimizes some portion of the crap people have to do, but don’t want to, then those who can afford it will pay them for the trouble. Now, from a consumer innovation standpoint,…

Debating whether or not history repeats itself isn’t the best use of our energy. Because both sides of the argument are eminently provable. Eternal recurrence theory states that the currents of history repeat themselves in an infinite loop. Nietzsche theorized that same events will continue to occur in exactly the same way, over and over again, for eternity. What was once considered outdated will become trendy once more. Like…