Agency & Resiliency (#86)
Reporting shallow statistics about the number of under represented employees tells us nothing. Diversity initiatives fail if they do not fundamentally alter the institutions power relationships.
Curiosity
Adversarial Collaboration (#85)
Break the endless cycle of critique → reply → rejoinder by embracing adversarial collaboration, a method to solve problems more quickly and transparently.
Principles & Analogies (#84)
Following an established recipe does not make us a chef, it makes us the cook. First principle thinking is the path to expertise — to becoming a chef.
Ambition & Discontent (#75)
Being discontent serves as an early warning signal that our ambitions are out of balance.
The Infinite & Omega (#72)
Buzz Lightyear has been telling us all along, there is something beyond Infinity, it's the critical order of things, called the Omega.
Facts & Storytelling (#69)
Storytelling is essential because we know that the impression we leave on others is really about how we make them feel.
Specialties & Lenses (#58)
We seek to incorporate mental models of the world that differ from ours, building a toolkit to improve the quality of our outcomes.
Infinite Information & Sense-Makers (#48)
We have supplanted direct knowledge with access — googling everything we want answered.