May 10, 2023
Everyone experiences rejection. Let’s talk about turning “feeling crushed” into “crushing it.”
May 03, 2023
For the next three weeks, we’ll dig into the idea of resilience—who has it, how we talk about it, and how we can gain more.
January 25, 2023
Personality characteristics can only predict about 20 percent of behavior. That’s because most people act different ways in different situations.
January 18, 2023
Small simile update: our brain’s visual system is less “like a camera” and more like a card-counting, crystal-ball-wielding stoner who’s high on mushrooms.
January 11, 2023
The brain is a strange, complex structure with one critical role: allostasis. We don’t fully understand them, but having one is a serious upgrade from the “stomach on a stick” phase.
August 03, 2022
Maestro Group has reached a major milestone this week. You know who helped us get here? Cavemen.
March 30, 2022
Cognitive biases work together to create nine bias traps that affect decision-making. Escaping them requires prediction, intentionality, premortems, and a little less storytelling.
March 09, 2022
An anchoring bias makes it nearly impossible to look at something fresh. But you have to free yourself from it, whatever it takes–a second opinion, a red team–because otherwise you’ll drown.