There are two standard views about individuals and groups. The most common view is that individuals are primary. This is usually characterized by people thinking that to build the best teams, you need the best people (as if these best people exist in isolation) and the great man theory of leadership, where an individual can shape a team and individually

It seems like everyone now has imposter syndrome. Or at least everyone who isn’t a psychopath. The traditional definition of imposter syndrome focuses on feeling like a fraud and questioning one’s own abilities to do what one is doing. I want to focus on this feeling of fraud because it is a question of identity or misidentification. We all have

I will admit it: I am an AI skeptic. But that said, I recently spent some time building a project with AI, and I was impressed. Still, I believe some of AI’s promises are overstated. AI will continue to improve, but I don’t believe the risk to humans is an Artificial General Intelligence that will destroy the world. I think

Can we learn anything about management from a German Philosophy text published over 200 years ago? I think we can, and I’m curious to hear your thoughts. One of the most read (in part because it is one of the most easily understood) parts of Hegel’s Phenomenology of the Spirit is the Lord and Bondsman scene, also known as the

How do we make work better for everyone, even within the constraints of a capitalist system? In a previous newsletter, we looked at the notion of private government, the idea that when you work for a company, you are essentially the citizen of a private government and that, thus, you are subject to an authoritarian regime. At a time when