“I wasn’t even intending to take that picture.” That’s what Devin Allen, 26, said about the photo he took that wound up on the cover of TIME magazine. The city of Baltimore was caught in a zeitgeist of peaceful protests, police brutality, and riots, and Allen was an amateur photographer Read more…
1. When you’re a hot new startup, you wear jeans. 2. When you want to raise your rates, you wear business casual. 3. When you want to charge premium rates, you wear a suit. 4. When you want to charge what you’re really worth because you actually know what you’re Read more…
You can always make more money, but you can’t make more time. And since there’s no shortage of spectacle competing for our precious 24 hours, finding smart ways to invest our minutes is increasingly difficult. So if we can never gain time, why not invest in methods to maximize the Read more…
First, let’s agree that money is overrated. Granted, in our capitalist system we all still need money and pursue it desperately. But as any chart of wealth inequity can show you, none of us will enter the top 1% anytime soon. Instead, we’re all fighting for scraps. (Not that this Read more…
Marketing a product? Offering a service? Creating something original? In each case, you need people to do two things for you: Notice what you’re doing, and Talk about it with others. If no one’s talking about you, you’ll have to spend a lot more time, money, and effort advertising your Read more…
Have you ever walked out of a movie? Or failed to finish a book you started reading? Or gotten halfway through a video game and just given up? Congratulations: you secretly won. That’s because you stopped giving your time and attention to something that didn’t appeal to you, and turned Read more…
Autonomy is a major theme on Mad Men. Who has more power to control your story and your life — is it you, or everyone else? For example, when the execs at ad agency Sterling Cooper learn their ad agency is about to be sold (again) at the end of Read more…
Changing a complex system is difficult, but it’s not impossible.
In politics, business, love and war, we’re tempted to reduce all conflicts to a winner and a loser. By doing this, we imply that one side’s argument (or army) defeated the other soundly. In reality, this rarely happens. That’s because the margin between victory and defeat is often just a Read more…
I don’t remember a word from my graduation. I don’t even remember who spoke at it, much less what they said. That’s partly because I was exhausted (our art school staged our portfolio review and our graduation on the same day), but also because people rarely say anything memorable during Read more…