Personal Growth — April 29, 2011

Case Study: 37signals

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The co-founder of the web application firm discusses common pitfalls of starting a new business and the need to be flexible with your business model.

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A hand holding several U.S. dollar bills, digitally altered with a green color scheme and glitch effects, represents the future of income in a rapidly changing digital economy.

Business

The “digital dividend”: Rethinking income for the age of AI

Agentic AI pioneer Chetan Dube considers ways that everyone can be lifted by the tide of AI, not just those with the capital to leverage it.

Business

4 way leaders can supercharge their CQ: “Cultural intelligence”

To be culturally intelligent, you must be curious and open-minded — and the benefits can be transformative.

A composite image showing a galaxy with red circles marking stars on the left and multicolored expanding rings with Earth on the right, all set against a grid background, illustrating concepts like Hubble tension studied by Wendy Freedman.

Starts With A Bang

Is the Hubble tension real? Exclusive interview with Wendy Freedman

Different methods of measuring the Universe’s expansion rate yield high-precision, incompatible answers. But is the problem robustly real?

Book cover of "The Systems Leader" by Robert E. Siegel, featuring geometric orange shapes, next to text that reads "an excerpt from" on a blue background—highlighting concepts of systems leadership.

Business

Why “Systems Leadership” is hard in the best possible way

The corporate world is no cake walk — as a leader you need a framework that can equip you for the cross-pressures.

A worker in protective gear operates machinery in an industrial facility, with a partial overlay of solar panels and geometric patterns above—hinting at the innovative spirit found in stellar societies.

The Long Game

The Tony Seba and James Arbib interview: Why the future belongs to “stellar societies”

The cofounders of think tank RethinkX are convinced that humanity is undergoing civilizational phase change.

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