Simon Sinek: Do little things
Consistency is a series of small efforts that over time add up to create a big impact. Seth Godin calls this ‘the drip.’ Simon Sinek refers to...
Author: Wells Baum
Instantly graded and discarded
Does anyone spend time with anything anymore? We devour and discard. How can we attach meaning in such a short window of time? Those that...
Stephen King: ‘Writing is refined thinking.’
“Writing is refined thinking.” Stephen King...
Leonardo Da Vinci: Thinking with an extra wrinkle in the brain
No artist contained an extra wrinkle in their brain as big as Leonardo Da Vinci. He was a creative genius who combined the disciplines of...
Artist Shepard Fairey supports National School Walkout Day with two protest posters
Widely known for Obama’s 2008 “Hope” poster, contemporary street artist and activist Shepard Fairey created two posters to aid students with their #NationalSchoolWalkout yesterday. According to...
RIP Stephen Hawking: ‘Quiet people have the loudest minds’
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” Stephen Hawking was a visionary physicist who explored the universe and...
Fearing a loss of mind
There are very few moments in the day when we pause. Instead, we latch onto the sugary obsession of tech and its distractions, awaiting the...
Picasso: Art as a form of diary
Art is where our mind’s eye merges with reality to create a theater inside our head, resulting in the form of a diary. This was...
Blame the humans, not the bots, for retweeting false news
According to research done by data scientists at MIT, it is humans, not bots, which disseminate false news. The study began with the 2013 Boston...
The tale behind the term ‘horsepower’ 🐎
The terms ‘horsepower’ and ‘10,000 steps’ were both marketing gimmicks. In the 1770s, James Watt wanted to demonstrate that his steam engine invention was more...
Henry Rollins: The One Decision that Changed My Life Forever
Talent is overrated. Hard work, discipline, grit, and consistency are attributes that increase your chances of getting what you want. Luck is a matter of...
‘I wish I was a little bit smaller’
Nicholas Kulish is 6 foot 8 inches. Towering about the average American height of 5 foot 8, society is simply not built for him. As...