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Claude Code for normal people: skills, voice mode, and how to collaborate with AI
Listen now | 🎙️ Grace Clarke rebuilt her service business in Claude, turning 20 hours of weekly admin into one automated pipeline for proposals, client tracking, and email
How to Avoid Innovation One-Hit Wonders
Andy Carter/Ikon Images Innovation leaders often know how to manage success well. A fairly good idea is recognized, a strong contributor is rewarded, and the lessons from the win are carried into the next team project. In many cases, that is exactly the right organizational response. But, sooner or later, most organizations have a […]
Give me one reason
When your project, proposal or resume is rejected, it’s tempting to try to understand why. Scrutinize the rejection letter and turn the short sentence into a paragraph or an essay, then play it over and over in your search for how to do better next time. If you can simply answer this rejection, next time […]
The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor
Listen now | Cursor’s Adam Ward on “funnel of doom” hiring, treating every hire like an executive search, and why caring is the biggest unfair advantage in recruiting
“We’re all being surprised at the same time”
Keith Jarrett on improvisation. When the artist is creating in real time, in conjunction with the witnesses in the room, “performance” goes away. It’s creation. Improvisation is a privilege, a chance to create without a guarantee.
🧠Community Wisdom: Crafting outreach that reads as authentic, finding design partners, what counts as a moat when anyone can build, making a product vision stick, and more
A curated collection of community insights addressing key product development challenges, including strategies for authentic customer outreach, identifying and recruiting design collaborators, defining competitive advantage when building technologies becomes accessible to all, and techniques for rallying teams around a compelling product vision.
The McIntosh Modernity Index
There’s a village in Luxembourg that’s right outside the main metropolis. A farmer often ties up a donkey to the little bridge leading to town. The juxtaposition of international digital trading and donkeys is a reminder that as fast as the future arrives, the past also sticks around. We can measure the distance not just […]
Will the Government Bail Out Your 401(k) in a Market Crash?
Wharton finance professor Nikolai Roussanov explains how 401(k)s are exposed to market volatility, the likelihood of government intervention, and what investors should expect in a crisis. … Read More
Be Coachable: Ten Truths of Being Coachable
SPORTS analyst Ric Bucher wondered, after rubbing shoulders with some of the greatest athletes, which traits separate the best from the rest? The common denominator was: I was coachable. In Coachable, Bucher explores ten truths of coachability through the stories of all-time great athletes. The truths are applicable to all walks of life. What is coachability? “Synthesizing your vision of who and w
As the crow flies
You’re not a crow, neither is your project. To get from a village in rural France to Los Angeles, the trip to London might be a tiny fraction of the distance from London to LA, but it takes more than half the time. It’s easy to imagine that every step in our journey proceeds at […]
Leading Thoughts for August 6, 2026
IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Jeremy Pollack on certainty: “Certainty is the nemesis of peace. Our drive toward certainty, which underlies our subconscious and conscious desires to be right, is antithetical to our capacities for flexibility, open-mindedness, and collaboration with thos
The modern library
Is this where books go to die? There are about 7500 public libraries in the US, and until recently, more than a third of their transactions were for DVDs. What’s a library for? The media has changed, our needs have changed, but the dynamics of funding, architecture and expectation have largely remained the same. The […]
Why AI Makes Collective Intelligence More Valuable Than Ever
Henning Piezunka, associate professor of management at the Wharton School, explains why AI isn't replacing collective intelligence — it is transforming how organizations access, develop, and apply it to drive innovation and growth. … Read More
Why Pitch Counts Are Failing Baseball
Travis Sawchik, baseball analytics writer and author, explains why pitch counts miss the full picture of pitcher workload and fatigue. … Read More
Build an AI code review bot in 30 minutes with Vercel Eve
Watch now | 🎙️ I used Vercel Eve agents and Codex to build Merge Mommy: a PR review bot that scores risk, auto-approves the easy ones, and pings me in Slack for the rest
Stop Prompting AI. Start Directing It
James Yang/theispot.com The Research The authors drew on two streams of research for this article. The first was a qualitative study of AI-assisted discovery that identified four pathways by which AI generates surprising insights during analytical work.i The second stream was an examination of how organizations function as algorithmic assemblages; it showed that algorithmic systems […]
The disconnect between effort and value
They’re often out of whack. A Hard Day’s Night took less than 15 hours from idea to finished record. More Than a Feeling, from Tom Scholz and Boston, took five years. Each pleased their audiences. One is not 1,500 times more valuable than the other. Sometimes, work that requires effort leads to scarcity, and that […]
The Psychology Behind Back-to-School Shopping
Patti Williams, Wharton associate professor of marketing, explains how back-to-school shopping blends family decisions, identity, nostalgia, budgets, and retail strategy. … Read More
What if you’re not supposed to have a long-term plan?
This article argues against traditional rigid career planning, proposing instead that career paths can unfold organically by seizing opportunities as they arise rather than following a predetermined long-term blueprint.