by John Macdonald | Feb 10, 2026 | Human, Leadership, The250
No, not that swamp. The swamp of everything is urgent, they’re all number one priority, and we don’t have enough resources. The inbox overflows. Every meeting requires two more meetings. Nobody can push back. You can’t even figure out what the real highest priority is... by John Macdonald | Feb 9, 2026 | Human, Leadership, The250
But they rarely are. All things being equal is the English version of the Latin phrase ceteris paribus, which economists and scientists use to talk about the effect of one change while theoretically keeping everything else the same. It’s a useful academic approach,... by John Macdonald | Feb 8, 2026 | Human, The250
We think the universe is about 13.8 billion years old. If we laid that out on the ground at 13.8 miles, your lifetime is about 1/2 an inch. If we put 13.8 billion years into a 24-hour day, all of human civilization shows up in the last blink before 11:59:59. We think...