HIT Piece 5.31.2016

Seth Godin made a good point: “In any failing system, the people at the top get hurt last.” From schools to students, higher education is playing out this maxim before our eyes in the US right now. The schools at the top in the US—Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Read more…

[Opinion] What We Subsidize…

What a society taxes it gets less of, and what a society subsidizes it gets more of. For various social, economic, psychological, emotional, and other reasons, societies around the world, throughout history, have taxed peace, while subsidizing war. This is not a statement of judgment, just one of objective observation. We honor dead Read more…

[Opinion] On Winning at Nuclear Poker

Nuclear weapons are a touchy subject in geopolitical negotiations. Almost everyone involved in the negotiations around nuclear weapons knows what the outcomes of launching them against another country could be, which is why, following the collapse of the former Soviet Union, regionalism in arms races became a geopolitical concern. But Read more…

[Strategy] Burnout Over The Pacific

When you talk with divorce and family lawyers about divorces, separations, or even “conscious uncouplings” a statement they always make in the course of the conversation focuses around their amazement that couple choose to go through a litigation based process. In particular, their statement tends to focus on the fact Read more…

[Opinion] Doing More Work with Fewer People

There are now computer programs and algorithms that can render daily, rote, assembly line decisions faster at scale than human beings can. There are experiments beginning with artificial intelligence programming, that promises to make decisions faster, cheaper, and more rationally and accurately than human beings, without getting clogged up with Read more…

[Strategy] The Law of Compound Interest

The fact of the matter is no one can truly penetrate another person’s conflict experience. We have fooled ourselves into thinking that, with all the social proofing via digital tools, and the peacock-like social media displays that we all put on every day, that we know other people’s inner lives. Read more…