“The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time. That’s why they are innovative — until now, nobody ever figured out that they were good ideas.”
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Can-Do Culture Versus Can’t-Do Culture
“The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time. That’s why they are innovative — until now, nobody ever figured out that they were good ideas.”
What We Still Don’t Know: Why Sleep Matters
“Sleep deprivation is nearly as misunderstood as sleep itself, but it can physically and mentally harm people in myriad ways.”
What We Still Don’t Know: Why Sleep Matters
“Sleep deprivation is nearly as misunderstood as sleep itself, but it can physically and mentally harm people in myriad ways.”
Getting Drunk and Making Resolutions on New Year’s Are Religious Acts
As University of Chicago Divinity School professor Wendy Doniger explains, our seemingly secular traditions around January 1 are echoed in religions all over the world.
Was Religion Itself Originally the Product of Psychotropic Drug Use?
The idea – referred to by scholars as the entheogen theory – has certainly been discussed over the past 60 years or so. How much is there to it?
Getting Drunk and Making Resolutions on New Year’s Are Religious Acts
As University of Chicago Divinity School professor Wendy Doniger explains, our seemingly secular traditions around January 1 are echoed in religions all over the world.
Was Religion Itself Originally the Product of Psychotropic Drug Use?Was Religion Itself Originally the Product of Psychotropic Drug Use?
The idea – referred to by scholars as the entheogen theory – has certainly been discussed over the past 60 years or so. How much is there to it?
The Problem With TED
“But have you ever wondered why so little of the future promised in TED talks actually happens? So much potential and enthusiasm, and so little actual change. Are the ideas wrong? Or is the idea about what ideas can do all by themselves wrong?”
Netflix Has A Different Approach To Keeping Its Employees Creative
“People find the Netflix approach to talent and culture compelling for a few reasons. The most obvious one is that Netflix has been really successful.”