Ideas are free, execution is priceless.

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 What was once considered outdated will become trendy once more.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…

Let’s begin by accepting the fact that control is largely an illusion. The human ego tries to preserve control so it can manage the randomness, uncertainty and chaos of life and death. But we live on a thirteen septillion pound rock that is rotating at a thousand miles an hour. To suggest that we have any shred of control is mathematically unfeasible. But all astrophysical and existential realities aside,…

Whether it’s journaling, meditation, reflecting, talking, exercising, reading, whatever, the purpose is initiating physical, mental or spiritual movement. Whatever causes you to discover thoughts or feelings that were previously hidden or unconscious. For some, that might mean focusing their attention on a particular object or work, so that they create space for their thoughts and emotions to surface. For others, that might mean creating environment that allows your mind…