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Recent calls to boycott gig work made me think of a forgotten, fascinating World War I story. It turns out, economics has always been better at surviving outrage than we think.
These 8 quotes have had a tremendous impact on my life, and I couldn’t think of a better way than sharing these to wish you a happy and joy-filled 2026!
We celebrate breakthroughs as sudden flashes of genius. But most of history’s biggest leaps began as small, uncertain steps taken by people who had no idea where the road would lead.
Two men entered the same race. One chased applause, the other ran from it. Their stories say more about us than we think.
From IQ tests to entrance exams, we’ve always mistaken marks for merit. True intelligence lives outside the answer sheet, but we have struggled to formally identify it.