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Max Gutbrod
- Apr 6
20 Axioms For Pursuing Truth
Great analysis is as much about our perspective when we consume information as it is the content of that information to begin with. Thus,...
Max Gutbrod
- Mar 1
Facing The Music
When I was young and had ambitions of becoming a singer, I sang for my mom. In preparation for this performance, I hadn’t practiced along...
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
Creativity, Now!
In America, economic incentives are increasingly aligned to reward creativity. Automation continues to erode the human role in repetitive...
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
The Power of Suggestion: Health Habits during COVID
Human beings are susceptible to many cognitive biases. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman describes a cognitive bias as the unconscious process...
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
The 21st Century Renaissance
Specialists are being replaced by automation. What does this mean for the future of education?
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
We Need to Become Order Bringers
We need leaders who live simply, think clearly, and act decisively. We need to become those leaders.
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
What We Lose is You
To find yourself, don't go searching; start slashing.
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
Manifesto
“The best way to complain is to make things better.” -Seth Godin
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
In Order to Speed Up, Slow Down
The irony of being a busy body is that nothing gets done.
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
Do you do meaningless work?
None of us should do meaningless work. So why do we?
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
The Slow Clap
The cost of telling the truth might be discomfort. The cost of the lie might be catastrophe.
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
Expertise vs Evidence
Science is the opposite of expertise. Who do you trust?
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
Working Everything Out Evenly
“To live under constraint is a misfortune, but there is no constraint to live under constraint.” -Seneca
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
B.B.S.D. (Better B******* Detector)
Fake news. Fake reviews. Tinfoil hats and their corporate shill counterparts. Another decade gone, but the spirit of the 2010s lingers on.
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
COVID-19 Survey Results
On Sunday, we closed out a nationwide survey on the public reaction to COVID-19. These are the findings of interest from that survey.
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
Where You Can Hear Yourself Think
Our world has progressively increased the demands placed on the applied mind, and the consequences have become increasingly personal.
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
Our Tangled, Technomanic World
The tyranny of the applied mind has fostered a fragile world. What can we do about it?
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
A Consequence of Complexity
What’s unnecessary will show itself as such in its absence.
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
Invisible Saviors Revisited: On Mindfulness in the Workplace
Sometimes the best thing you can do is nothing at all.
Max Gutbrod
- Feb 16
To Our Survey Panelists
It may sometimes feel like you're firing your opinion off into the void, but it truly makes a difference!