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An inflation-adjusted chart of Global Box Office + Home Video compared to budget. All in millions.

The inspiration from this episode was Tyler Cowen’s response to Tim Ferriss’s question: What would y…

This is an attempt at understanding R0 (reproductive number) as more than a numbing number. View these notes as less definitive. 

In his (2014) paper Risking It All: Why are public health authorities …

I finally found the name for a thing I’d noticed.

For a long time, I was in a crowd, of ideas, not people.

I saw something, only a glimpse.

Without knowing what it was, or what to look for I didn’t k…

BIG ideas this week: framing, jobs-to-be-done, latent needs, and local logic.

What’s great about this collection is the cost-benefit analysis. One small change can lead to huge returns.

A few ideas from the letter ‘E’. Cue Sesame Street theme.

Some of my favorite ideas around design, doing (or not), and understanding.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Our weekly audio for our weekly email. Enjoy.

Our weekly audio update from the weekly typed posts. Enjoy.

This week is an alphabetical experiment from a long piece of content.

No one knows everything but we don't know what specifically we are wrong about. Sometimes we guess right. Sometimes we don't. Some…

What is ease? It’s sending a message “in stride”.

It’s coaches to a player, copywriters to a reader, a legislator to a constituent. Whenever we want to persuade someone we should make it easy for the…

Relating to last week’s episode about stakeholders is the cadence of work they allow, permit, or encourage.

This week is heavy on examples from entertainment. It’s artsy and I’m okay with that. As th…

One big email this week, as the experiment continues.

Briefly, businesses succeed with the right people making the right decisions over time. In this episode, we call them stakeholders.

This idea is …

Thank you, everyone, for the feedback. The audio posts are much more popular than I would have guessed. Here’s this week’s midweek. These are also available on iTunes and Overcast.

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What we’re looking at this week is going to be hard. Built off a podcast between Zach Lowe and David Epstein.

“I think what frustrates people about this wh…

Our audio experiment continues this week. If you want to subscribe in your podcast player, here’s the link.

Today in the email a checklist.

☑️ What is the story around what you're doing? For example, …

💡 What’s it take to have a good idea and where do we get them?

💎 Good ideas are like precious elements, only instead of centuries for chemical bonds to form, one new perspective can spark one. We’ll …

The experiment continues. Enjoy this audio version of this week’s posts.

Note: this was fun to create and I’d wager more fun to listen to.

The short. This is an experimental feature. If you like it, let me know. If you listen it will spoil some of the surprises from this week.

-Mike

The long. I need to send this out to populate the RSS…