A business will hire anyone they believe will make them more money than they cost. It is as simple as that, but most people think about employment and jobs in a complex and abstract way. People …
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Being Remembered Isn’t Worth It
Society admires dead heroes. Great statues, famous painting, modern books, and federal holidays pay homage to great figures from the past. These historical heroes are held in high esteem, so people …
Forged Not Built
The most valuable skills and capabilities are not built in advance, they are forged through experience. We like to think that we can build new capabilities before we are actually challenged to put …
A Generation Without Borders
In the past, our concepts of generations only extended to the developed world. Generation X was an American phenomenon, and it may have applied to people the same age in Italy, but not in …
How to Learn What You’ve Learned
Learning from experience teaches you a lot, but it is easy to miss the lesson if your head is buried in work. If you're not conscious it's easy to take deep and valuable lessons for granted. Taking …
Cats on the Blockchain
The most popular thing in cryptocurrency right now is a game called CryptoKitties, that lets users buy, breed, and sell cartoon cats on the Ethereum Blockchain. On the surface, it looks like …