Psychology isn’t enough

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” - Friedrich Nietzsche I have been intrigued by subtleties of human nature for a long time, and thus devoured a quite a few books on psychology. But I now realize that psychology does not give us a complete understanding of …

Better than apes

We tend to vilify imitation. Our culture encourages us to 'be original' and 'be yourself', and 'don't follow the crowd.' Laws punish copying in serious cases, and society in general looks down on it. We consider apes as inferior, hence if someone copies others, we call the act 'aping'. So I am intrigued by the …

Hitting a target no one can see (yet)

Something personal - I want to inject fresh energy to this publication. This is the 61st post, and according to Seth Godin, just a thousand will give us a good start. In his own words, For years, I’ve been explaining to people that daily blogging is an extraordinarily useful habit. Even if no one reads …

The best ideas are out there

I recently read the book 'Steal like an Artist' by Austin Kleon, and applied some of its lessons in my life. It helped like, a lot. And then, just because, I made this formula to remind myself about how important it is to get ideas from outside. Most of the time, maybe due to high …