Process thinking | Seth’s Blog
Process thinking | Seth’s Blog Sure, you made it work this time, but will it work next time? Can you teach the […]
Samin Nosrat on the Faustian Bargain of Achievement and the Simple Substance of the Good Life – The Marginalian
We live in a bipolar epoch — on one end, the blamethirsty finger of cancel culture and politicized othering; on the other, the zeal for […]
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance – The Marginalian
One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we […]
Voluntary stories | Seth’s Blog
The narrative we run in our head is a choice. It might or might not be based on objective reality and verified history. Doesn’t matter, […]
How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize – The Marginalian
In the fall of 1946, a South African little girl aspiring to be a scientist wrote to Einstein and ended her letter with a self-conscious […]
Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours – The Marginalian
One of the most important things I have learned about living is that, in any life of purpose and creative vitality, you must be as […]
“Everybody wants to win” | Seth’s Blog
Sports analogies often let us down. A colleague was explaining how measurement was difficult in many organizations, unlike a basketball game, where the time, the […]
Rilke on the Relationship Between Solitude, Love, Sex, and Creativity – The Marginalian
“You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love,” artist Louise Bourgeois wrote in her diary […]
The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird – The Marginalian
For all the enchantment the color blue has cast upon humanity, no animal has fallen under its spell more hopelessly than the bowerbird, whose very […]
The infinite tail | Seth’s Blog
The Long Tail was a profound cultural insight. When we created YouTube, Amazon, Roon, recipe websites and Netflix, the culture changed. When you give people […]
