In the early days of a start-up forming an advisory board can be a great way to formalize and regularize the feedback you receive from experts. I think an ideal advisory board contains big names with no time (whose name, by association, offers...

I'm a big fan of litmus tests, heuristics, rules of thumb (here's my wiki with hundreds of rules), and anything else that can help me make a quick decision when there's too little time or too much indecisiveness. Colin Marshall posted 10 "easily...

Troy Senik writes about California's problems and talks in passing about how the public school teachers' unions have the state by the neck. Read it and weep: Perhaps the most vexing labor organizations are the teachers' unions. These groups were the...

Good decisions require a mix of dispassionate, rational analysis and emotion. Though we often hear of emotion and passion clouding the decision making process, research shows that feelings help us make better decisions. Specifically, emotions aid...

"Just a few centuries ago, the smartest humans alive were dead wrong about damn near everything. They were wrong about gods. Wrong about astronomy. Wrong about disease. Wrong about heredity. Wrong about physics. Wrong about racism,...