thinking skills
How to Stop Overthinking Your Decisions
Gathering more information feels responsible. There's a point where it tips into overthinking and keeps you stuck.
Mindjacking: When Your Opinions Aren't Yours
Every day you make decisions you think are yours. Most aren't. The algorithm decided, the expert weighed in, the crowd chose. You just clicked agree.
Mental Models — Your Thinking Toolkit
NASA engineers and management had the same data. Their conclusions were 1000x apart. The difference? The mental tools they used to think.
From Teligent Disaster to HP Success: A Second-Order Thinking Story
Kevin Allodi thought three moves ahead when I wasn't thinking past the first. His decision saved my family—and taught me the framework I use for billion-dollar calls.
I Wore a Red Badge Inside the NSA. Here's What Happened.
I mastered probabilistic thinking in my algorithm. Then made every wrong bet with my business.
HP Won Innovation Awards. Then Killed What Made It True.
Three years on the Most Innovative list. Thirteen years absent. Here's what changed—and what it proves about causation.
Kroger Copied HP's Innovation Playbook Perfectly. It Failed Anyway.
The invisible reasoning error that cost 18 months—and why you're probably making it right now
I Told the Department of Education Their Graduates Were Useless
The room went silent. But I'd been watching this crisis unfold for decades—starting on a factory floor in 1981
The Thinking Hack That Built Billion-Dollar Companies
While competitors think harder, start thinking laterally—the systematic method for finding breakthrough innovations hiding in plain sight.
