Whenever words are carried by saltine winds over vast expanses of water, they somehow gain the magical property of resonating clearer in our minds. This is why we seem to fall head over heels in love with wisdom from faraway lands. It explains our obsession with Ikigai. It’s why...
Have you ever been to a concert and then left thinking the show was a lot better than it was? Well, this is because of something called the peak-end effect. The peak-end effect shows that what we recall from past experiences is not always accurate. Per Daniel Kahneman, this stems...
David speaks with Buster Benson, a CEO of 750words.com, author of "Why Are We Yelling? The Art of Productive Disagreement". Previously co-founded 43things.com, healthmonth.com, the Locavore iPhone app, a bar/art gallery in Seattle called McLeod Residence, creator of the Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet, and...
Jon Gottschall wrote a book called The Story Paradox, in which the humble story itself is the villain. He wants us to stop asking, “How we can change the world through stories?” and start asking, “How can we save the world from stories?”. The premise has me on the back...
David speaks with Urenna Okonkwo, the founder and CEO of luxury fashion fintech platform Cashmere. They talk about everything at the intersection of fashion and fintech, as well as Urenna's experiences fundraising and scaling. At the age of 23, Urenna Okonkwo came up with the idea for an...
85% of the global email volume is spam Sounds a lot like the 80/20 rule We usually know what spam looks like when it hits our inbox, but forget to look for it in everyday life 80% of the information you encounter is spam, but you endure it anyway....
