Thoughts on Life

Operating in the White Space

Every company has an organizational chart. This chart shows the various roles in an organization and who reports to whom. This chart typically shows a

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It’s Not Rocket Science

There’s an American idiomatic expression that’s used in a somewhat sarcastic way when describing something that should be easy to do but isn’t being done.

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Nuance

The media turns issues into black and white. Social media revenue optimization algorithms do the same. Fear sells. Extreme points of view get attention. Love

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80/20 Rule in the Real World

I’ve always been fascinated by the 80/20 rule. The 80/20 rule was an observation made by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto in 1896. Pareto observed that

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The Paradigm of Prestige

There’s a worldview that says the rich people are more important than the poor, the elite are better than the average, and the special are

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