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While I fundamentally agree with John Lasseter—and Pixar’s belief that quality is the best business plan—there’s a time-compressed, resource-hungry reality to building an AI product in the age of the singularity. Early in my career, I learned about a concept known as the “Iron Triangle,” which suggests you can usually optimize only two of three
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You’re burning out. You’re feeling hopeless. You’re getting nowhere. Before you start reacting counterproductively while in caught in the gyrations of a loss spiral—and potentially dig yourself into oblivion—take a deep breath and just sit in the shit a little longer. Donald Sull is a Professor of the Practice at the MIT Sloan School of
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Do not—I repeat, do not—try this at home: administer, in a child’s formative years, the battery of (1) poverty, (2) adverse childhood experiences, (3) gangsta rap, (4) the immigrant hustle, and (5) the disorientation of growing up in Scarborough. The headspace of an underdog fashioned by those factors is punishing during periods of relative peace;
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Now, if we’re really talking about loss—and how it lurks at the core of why humans experience psychological stress—then my accountant, Brian, may know me better than my therapist. In our monthly catch-up call, I vented to Brian that becoming a new father to radiant twins has come with more than its fair share losses—but
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After circling the lot for minutes on end, you’re finally about to snag a parking spot—when another vehicle cuts you off and slides into it without hesitation. If that scene enrages you and, within seconds, you begin assembling a mental portrait of the kind of person who would do that, you’re not alone—but you are
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A hundred years from now, the general public will look back at Megalopolis—Francis Ford Coppola’s bruised, beautiful swing—as a revelation: an earnest work of hope and passion delivered into a jaded zeitgeist. I believe this because his posture toward it is unmistakable: he stands by it, proud, insisting it came from the heart. When a
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Writing my last post was disappointing on many levels, chief among them the acknowledgement that, for all intents and purposes, we’re still living in a hyper-individualistic society in which healing still falls within the purview of the person in pain. “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free” is a renowned quote by civil rights activist Fannie Lou
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When I was ten years old, I joyfully walked home from school one brisk afternoon and, to my surprise, my father’s car was parked in the driveway hours ahead of schedule. And ever since then, my nervous system has lived in overdrive, desperate for healing. This wasn’t a pleasant visit—my father hadn’t forgotten something at
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Ceylan and I were friendly, but far from friends—we were cordial, earnestly asked about each other’s lives and relationships, exchanged pleasantries in the lunchroom and at holiday parties, but never connected outside of work, or even at work, below that surface. And yet, I had deep trust in Ceylan’s ability to execute projects on time,
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Thanks to a single hopeful question, the entire trajectory of my company changed today. According to Dr. Stephen Hobfoll’s Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, humans are equilibrium-seeking creatures who work hard to avoid the distress caused by resource loss—actual loss, threatened loss, or insufficient gain. But when we fixate on avoiding loss during moments of
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