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This is another follow-up to the comments I received from our newsletter, MindPrep 196 – You Tell Me. As mentioned last time I received a few responses to ten “notes in the margin” I listed from books on my shelf. In response to #1 (questions are the engine of intellect) Mary wondered how “the latest…
When the pandemic started “in earnest” in 2020 I responded to a blogpost from my friend Erica Nelson and wrote a month-long series of posts about books on my shelf and ideas I gained from them. You see, I like “real” books and I often write notes in the margin. I was keeping busy (all…
I was on the treadmill this morning pondering macroeconomics and whether cryptocurrency is part of the M1 or M2 money supply. (Darn impressive, huh?) And, as I considered my confusion about cryptocurrencies, I sensed something familiar from my youth. What was it? And then it hit me – cryptocurrencies are like baseball cards! Baseball cards…
Don’t fall in love with your idea — unless you have the data.
Are you ready for things that are already on the horizon?
Past + Present >>> Future As we prepare to launch our new course, Intercepting the Future, we’ve been digging into some of the tools and techniques that are needed for the foundational skills of learning from the past and responding to the present. And, in doing so, we keep running into a very uncomfortable reality – in…
Assumptions are as dangerous as high blood pressure
Don’t ignore failure when you plan for success.
Inflation is out of control! Who should we blame? When something goes wrong, we want to find someone to blame. It seems to be human nature and it’s turned into an art form for our Congress. It’s easier than figuring out why something went wrong. And sometimes the answer is so complicated that we find…
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