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Have you ever heard of revenge consuming? It’s this thing we do when something has happened that annoys, inconveniences or angers us, and so, we eat, drink, shop, gamble, fuck, whatever, as a way of getting back at the person who wronged us. We’ve all done it before. Think back to when you were a kid and your mom made some comment like, honey, you shouldn’t be eating cookies,…

Launching a new brand is one of the most exhilarating business projects to work on. But it can also be one of the most challenging. Christensen, the professor and the creator of the term, the innovator’s dilemma, reports that each year, more than thirty thousand new consumer products are launched, and eighty percent of them fail. Will you be one of the twenty percent left? It largely depends on…

Nobel, the chemist, engineer and industrialist, was the holder of hundreds of patents. Most notably, the invention of dynamite. Interesting piece of trivia about him, he had the unpleasant surprise of reading his own obituary years before he died. The newspaper headline read the following: The merchant of death is dead. The man who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday….

Here’s core emotion that so many of us are afraid to express. Resentment at other people’s inability to take care of themselves. Because often times, we become the casualty of their suffering as well. The collateral damage is just waiting to happen. Everything will seem to be going fine in our lives, but then out of the blue, somebody else’s whole world goes to shit, and we have to…

Studies show that males under the age of nineteen are most likely to exhibit road rage. The question is, how can we we reach this population in a unique way? Because we’ve tried mindfulness during school, and we’ve tried medical marijuana after school, but neither of those solutions seem to be helping. Perhaps we need a solution that’s less obvious and more gamified. After all, we live in the…

Airport security personnel have one of the worst jobs in the country. Morale is low, pay is even lower, the uniforms are stiff and ugly, and they spend their days invading people’s personal space and property. To make matters worse, their department is the butt of jokes and the scorn of travelers everywhere. How would you like to do that for ten hours a day? Do you think those…

Decisiveness is the antidote to regret. If our organization wants to move forward on a committed path, then we need to stop micro optimizing ourselves into oblivion and take action. We need stop engaging in this neurotic battle with our transitory illusion of perfection and ship something out the goddamn door. We’re not having another meeting. There will be no more touching base, circling back, syncing up or getting…

People’s inability to take care of their own health and wellbeing is baffling to me. If people are deeply impressed with themselves for doing basic grown up tasks like staying home from work when they’re sick and spending real money on the things that their bodies need, that’s not an achievement that deserves public affirmation. It’s called being a mature adult. People have been doing it for centuries. There…

he sanity tax is a minor cost that’s disproportionate to the massive value we get in return. It’s when we pay a little bit more, in money or time or effort or energy, more to get what we need. Rather than settling for less out of guilt, pride, consistency or frugality. Like spending a hundred bucks on an air conditioning unit for our bedroom, so we don’t sleep in…

Shakespeare wondered if a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Well, one psychological study from the seventies argued that it would not. Researchers were curious about the effects of labels on candidates during job interviews, so here’s what they did. Half the participants were labeled as applicants, while the other half were labeled as patients. After watching the videotape, clinicians were asked to complete a questionnaire evaluating the…