Do you see your friends as fellow conspirators? It’s weird to think that your friends might be hiding something from you, or that you might be doing the same from them. But you do, and they are. You and your network are a system. You keep the good...

In The Nature of the Graph earlier this week, I talked about friction– ie, transaction costs– inside groups and how they impact the efficiency of groups. A transaction cost within a financial relationship can be a lot of things: from a broker taking...

Have you ever noticed that, on almost all of the popular websites, the link colour is blue? Have you ever built a web page from scratch? If not, you may not know that blue is the default colour these links appear in. You may also not know that blue...

Have you ever been asked to sign an NDA? Non-Disclosure Agreements exist because of lack of trust between parties that need to discuss a subject– in fact, that’s the nature of any contract– to provide legal recourse in the case of...

If I was creating a website right now that was designed to become popular, it would be The Oatmeal. It’s utterly brilliant. It combines interesting factoids with tons of illustrations. Each page is evergreen content, and will probably still be looked...