Spaced Practice: Why Learning Sticks Better When You Stop Cramming
Spaced practice beats cramming in over a century of research. See what the studies found, how it plays out in music, and what I do. Read the take.
The Four-Day Workweek Trials: What the Evidence Actually Shows
Four-day workweek trials covered thousands of employees. See what the research found, what it cannot tell a small business, and what I do. Read the take.
Quantum Computing Revisited: What Error Correction Actually Fixed
Quantum computing works fundamentally differently than the computer in your pocket — using qubits instead of simple on-off switches, able to hold multiple states at once instead of just one. We covered the fundamentals of how this actually works back in our first piece on the subject, Quantum Computing Isn’t Coming — It’s Here, which […]
What Actually Happens When a Small Business Gets Hacked
Small businesses are the primary target of cyberattacks, not an afterthought — 43% of all cyberattacks are aimed at small and medium-sized businesses specifically, and 88% of SMB breaches involve ransomware. A small business with weaker defenses and no dedicated security staff is simply a more efficient target than a large enterprise with a full […]
The Quiet Death of the Annual Strategic Plan
Research mining more than 20,000 real strategic plans found that 84.5% of strategic projects never actually reach completion — only 12.5% ever get finished, and just 5.7% of organizations complete 75% or more of what they set out to do in a given year. The reason isn’t that businesses are bad at planning. It’s that […]
What the Current Interest Rate Environment Actually Means for a Small Business
I’ll be honest about something upfront: I’m not an economist, and this isn’t my area of deep expertise. But I’ve been paying more attention to interest rates lately, for a simple reason — I’ll be looking at financing as I scale this business, and it doesn’t seem like costs are slowing down anywhere. Tools, marketing, […]
What Happens to Trust When Everyone Has AI
I’ve been using AI heavily in this business for a while now — to write, to design, to research — and it’s made me faster and better at my job than I was two years ago. So when I started looking into what’s actually happening with AI and trust right now, I expected to find […]
The Sleep Debt Economy: What Running on Empty Actually Costs You
There’s a number that doesn’t get enough attention in conversations about productivity, performance, and business health: $411 billion. That’s the estimated annual cost of sleep deprivation to the U.S. economy, according to research from RAND Europe — roughly 2.28% of GDP. It covers lost productivity, higher mortality risk among workers, and the downstream costs of […]
Synthetic Biology’s Quiet Decade: What Happens When You Can Program Life
There’s a field of science that spent the last decade doing remarkable things while most of us weren’t paying attention. It has been engineering living organisms — bacteria, yeast, fungi — to produce medicines, materials, and foods that used to require entirely different processes to make. It has done this in labs and startup incubators, […]
Water Is Everywhere — Until It Isn’t
I was in Arizona not long ago, and it got me thinking about water in a way I hadn’t before. Arizona has a well-documented water shortage. The Colorado River — which supplies water to tens of millions of people across the Southwest — no longer consistently reaches the sea. Lake Mead hit historically low levels […]