What makes people tick? The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler (Twitter) and Robin Hanson (Twitter) is a book that puts an uncomfortable spotlight on self-deception and the true…
“What I tell you three times is true.” This line from a Lewis Carroll story largely sums up the cautionary tale behind the book. Using a myriad of anecdotal and…
In Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl tells his story of surviving a concentration camp and how this experience led to his theory on the importance of meaning in one’s…
Ikigai – a Japanese way of life which encompasses ideas like: what we love to do, what we’re good at, and what the world actually needs. The place where they…
Many theories attempt to explain why some countries are rich and others poor – but they all only get so far: According to the geography hypothesis, the differences between rich…
The United States Army in Vietnam was not a cohesive, functional organization, and most of its failures can be attributed to an abandonment of leadership responsibility by its officer corps.…
A spider is a creature with eight legs coming out of a central body. It has a tiny head and usually eight eyes. If you chop off the spider’s head,…
“War is both timeless and ever changing. While the basic nature of war is constant, the means and methods we use evolve continuously”, says the Marine Corps Warfighting Doctrine. Weapons,…