The Story Economy Blog

This tiny sign, stuck haphazardly along the road, caught my eye the other day. My first thought was: Really, this is your ad campaign? Just coming right out and saying “Be a foster parent”? You expect a side-of-the-road command against the…

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened in Pride and Prejudice if Elizabeth Bennet had just been able to do a Google search of Mr. Darcy ahead of time? I think it would have looked something like this: ¬†Mr. Darcy|LinkedIn Derbyshire area;…

My whole life, I hated coffee. I mean, of course I drank Frappuccinos and the like. But the stuff inside actual coffee pots at home? Bitter. Battery acid. Ick. And then I had a kid. My go-to drink for morning wake up—water—wasn’t cutting it on…

It’s going to sound, for a minute, like I am writing about religion this week. But I’m really not. I’m writing about the traveling of ideas through brains and through time. A tiny little piece of it involves a conversation I had about…

I just keep hearing this everywhere, so I think I’m supposed to write about it. That is: how so many people I know have personal cultures that are gravely mismatched to their work culture. They’re about one thing, and the place where they spend…