This week, I get to cross something off my bucket list: a byline in The Economist. Those familiar wi... | Continue reading
“The task is...not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought... | Continue reading
9-min readThe federal response to the pandemic has been massive — a $5 trillion effort. It has also... | Continue reading
8-min readThere Is No Fate“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” President Eisenhower ... | Continue reading
5-min readThe pandemic’s most enduring feature will be as an accelerant of existing trends. The tre... | Continue reading
6-min readAs we can’t look away from the Mayor of America's one-man luge, and the head-on collision... | Continue reading
2-min readEvery decade, there’s at least one financial crisis somewhere in the world. When asked wh... | Continue reading
Last Day at L2Today is my last day at L2, the firm I founded a decade ago and that was sold two yea... | Continue reading
8-min readVariation is an aspect of natural selection that helps a population’s gene pool to develo... | Continue reading
9-min readAmerica’s involvement in WWII lasted 3 years and 9 months, and 405,399 Americans perished... | Continue reading
7-min readSince the age of five I’ve enjoyed peeing outdoors. Forty years later, peeing has become ... | Continue reading
6-min readOur fumbling, incompetent response to the pandemic continues. In six weeks, a key compone... | Continue reading
5-min readUS university presidents and chancellors, enough already.It’s time to end the consensual... | Continue reading
5-min readAddiction is the inability to stop consuming a chemical or pursuing an activity although ... | Continue reading
7-min readWe witness border skirmishes between big tech firms on a regular basis. This year, one or... | Continue reading
4-min readI feel stronger when I wear Nike products. The company is also likely the best advertiser... | Continue reading
4-min readAn Etch A Sketch is a mechanical drawing toy invented by André Cassagnes of France. Two k... | Continue reading
I gave an interview for New York Magazine this week that received a lot of attention.Colleges and u... | Continue reading
4-min readAn unlock is the discovery of an accelerant for the brand, product, or service invisible ... | Continue reading
6-min readThere is a stereotype that cat people are generally women who live and die alone with the... | Continue reading
7-min readLenin said nothing can happen for decades, and then decades can happen in weeks. Yes, a p... | Continue reading
6-min readAfter COVID-19, nothing will be the same. The previous sentence is bullsh*t. On the contr... | Continue reading
5-min readI interviewed Professor Jonathan Haidt yesterday on the Prof G podcast. Professor Haidt, ... | Continue reading
4-min readI’ve been through several crises.1987 : Dow crashes 22.6%. It was my first week of my fi... | Continue reading
5-min readJack Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, built an empire that birthed films including ... | Continue reading
6-min readIf a brand is a function of promise (imagery) and performance (interaction), then the bra... | Continue reading
6-min read— Seminal Of a work, event, moment, or figure strongly influencing later developmentsI l... | Continue reading
7-min readSo, why make predictions? Eisenhower said, “Plans are worthless, but planning is indispen... | Continue reading
4-min readIn 2015 one of my students asked me to invest in his business. He was sourcing cotton in ... | Continue reading
4-min readSometimes it’s darkest before it’s … pitch black.Things are going from bad to worse at S... | Continue reading
6-min readThere has never been a better time to be remarkable, nor a worse time to be unremarkable.... | Continue reading
7-min readIn the next 24 months, FedEx will either be acquired or lose an additional 40%+ in value.... | Continue reading
5-min readThe Dunning-Kruger effect posits that dumb people are too stupid to know they are dumb. T... | Continue reading
5-min readThe Dunning-Kruger effect posits that dumb people are too stupid to know they are dumb. T... | Continue reading
5-min readTo: Omid R. Kordestani Executive Chairman Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market Street, Suite 900 San... | Continue reading
5-min readMy NYU colleague professor Adam Alter has conducted research confirming that the most end... | Continue reading
5-min readSurvival — the pursuit of more time — is the most basic instinct. Procreation is a distan... | Continue reading
3-min readCouldn’t decide on any one, super-cool thing that’s crazy insightful or makes me cry whil... | Continue reading
Scott Galloway's musings of the week. | Continue reading
4-min readI can’t wrap my head around what happened at WeWork. It simply makes no sense. There has ... | Continue reading
4-min readI’m sick and depressed. Why? Lederhosen. Oktoberfest in Munich brought with it jet lag an... | Continue reading
5-min readSeason 1, Episode 1: SoftBank and Real EstateLast night I met up with friends at Soho Ho... | Continue reading
The unicorn barn is on fire. Ablaze. A feckless FTC and DOJ, no longer countervailing forces to priv... | Continue reading
The unicorn barn is on fire. Ablaze. A feckless FTC and DOJ, no longer countervailing forces to priv... | Continue reading
Malcolm Gladwell writes about a fascinating episode in history. Neville Chamberlain's first plane ri... | Continue reading
The story we were told about Amazon HQ2:The Seattle giant has outgrown its host city and needs to o... | Continue reading
So, the mother of all party crashers took a dump in the We IPO punch bowl. The crasher? Math. The au... | Continue reading
Tumblr is being sold for $3 million, a 99.7% destruction of the $1.1 billion Yahoo paid for the porn... | Continue reading