#Wisdom

Two winters living with a retired smuggler and lifelong surfer on the North Shore. The wisdom is the kind that doesn't show up in classrooms.

Hi, I took out 2 of my wisdom teeth (none of them impacted, simple extractions) 2 weeks ago and took another two 1 week ago. Today I went to remove the stiches of the last 2 and doctor said I was all clear for physical activity (I fully refrained from…

282 A number worth more than it looks I’m 18 followers away from 300. In the world of social media metrics, that’s nothing. Algorithms reward scale. Virality compounds. The conventional wisdom …

New Wharton research says that a better way to crowdsource ideas is to avoid the most popular answer to a question and select the “surprisingly popular” one.

Airbnb executive Chip Conley, whose boss is two decades younger, discusses the benefits of having an intergenerational workforce in his new book.…Read More

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Swarthmore professor Barry Schwartz says rules and incentives are an "insurance policy against disaster, but [they don't] produce excellence." In his recent book, Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing, Schwartz and co-author Kenneth…