‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T

He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?

26 cultural values companies get wrong

From accountability to transparency, leaders share where culture can go off track.

Incentives are for losers

OR: you must look at this fish and go insane

critical part of human development—in fact, the most human part of human development—is to acquire a purpose

We Do a Lot of Sneering at “Virtue Signaling.” It May Be Time to Rethink Our Approach.

Yes, it's good to do good things. It may be even more effective to tell people you're doing them.

The principles and laws you've never heard of

10 lesser-known principles that explain more about life than most books do

Hanlon’s razor

Price’s law

Rented Virtue

Will Manidis & Nabeel S. Qureshi

Every partnership that fueled this first forge was Quaker

The Quaker network absorbed the loss through a mutual obligation they felt towards each other and to the enterprise.

When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow

Picture this: A Slack channel for an open-source project that prominently displays "Be excellent to each other" in its community guidelines. Six month

These aren't moral failures—they're predictable system dynamics that we can recognize, understand, and potentially prevent.

In any community with strong values, there's social currency in being seen as embodying those values.

The Virtue of Integrity

The only way out of our wreckage is to rewrite the cultural script, to make excellence in character admired again.

Young Chinese Ask: Does This Life Spark Joy?

In growing online communities devoted to minimalism, young Chinese swap tricks for scoring bargains or cutting down on unnecessary purchases. But the real motivation is regaining a sense of control in an uncertain world.

Here’s How To Know If Your “Values” Are Really Values

Amidst the flurry of recent disclosures about people and companies in our little northern hemisphere who are doing things they say they’re…

A List Of 8 Core Values I Live By

Our values matter not because of how we are perceived, but because of how they define our character and set us apart from all others.

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