The Story Economy Blog

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…

I think the best hire any marketing department could make would be a four-and-a-half year old. I mean, okay, there are some obvious problems. But let’s not focus on those. Let’s just focus on this: no one is better at making you think about and…

This is a story about clarity of vision and the way it pulls you forward: I know that to be true. But the details of this particular story live only at the very tip of my memory, because it happened when I was just four. So I took the pieces I…