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The Modern World is a Dopamine Minefield. Here’s how to navigate it.

The Modern World is a Dopamine Minefield. Here’s how to navigate it.

Jun 8, 2022 | Attention, Deep Work, Dopamine, Modern Life, Thinking Tools

Photo by Milad Fakurian on Unsplash Flashback 50,000 years. You live on the land and survive as a hunter-gatherer. The more laid-back members of your tribe — the ones who are satisfied with a decent hunt or can’t be bothered to explore the next valley over to see if...
The S.I.E.S.T.A.S. Method for Beating Burnout

The S.I.E.S.T.A.S. Method for Beating Burnout

Apr 26, 2022 | Habits, Modern Life, Productivity, Restoration, Routines

Are you near Burnout, or know someone who is? As a strategic advisor to entrepreneurs and executives, I’ve had to get smart on what Burnout looks like but also how to stave it off. First, with all that has gone on in the past few years, it’s completely normal to feel...
We are reaching the end of the beginning of COVID-19. Welcome to the next phase: the Upside Down

We are reaching the end of the beginning of COVID-19. Welcome to the next phase: the Upside Down

Apr 22, 2020 | Anticipation, COVID-19, Mega Trends, Modern Life, Social Commentary

I’ve been thinking a lot about how this current phase of the pandemic – and the one that follows – will change us. Unfortunately, I don’t think that we are close to returning to normal. We are instead, to borrow a Churchillian turn of phrase, reaching the...
The Coronapocalypse is a failure of competence, but also of capitalism

The Coronapocalypse is a failure of competence, but also of capitalism

Mar 31, 2020 | Anticipation, Mega Trends, Modern Life, News, Perpendicular Thinking, Social Commentary, Strategy, Thinking Tools

Photo by Joshua Brown on Unsplash Are you surprised that the whole US economic system has essentially collapsed in a matter of weeks? I am. This is an enormously disruptive shock, to be fair. But the speed with which the health of the American economy has gone from...
In Praise of Slow Thinking

In Praise of Slow Thinking

Aug 7, 2019 | Attention, Deep Work, Modern Life, Stillness, Thinking Tools

Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker” As a reaction to fast food (and its more modern incarnation, fast-casual ), a countermovement rose up a number years ago extolling the virtues of ‘ slow food ’. Since then, we’ve seen the emergence of slow fashion, slow...

A Reinvention Portfolio is the Key to Planning for a 22nd Century Life

Jun 5, 2018 | Acceleration, Modern Life, Reinvention, Strategy

I’m sometimes called upon to give my take on so-called Mega Trends and ‘the Future’, and tonight I’ll be a giving a different version of that talk. Rather than forecasting the future, however, I’m going to discuss the long one you have in front of you. I’m going to...
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