Stanford University, 1971. From a group of volunteers, half were to play prisoners, half wardens, placed in a makeshift jail. Stanford prison experiment, aimed to
Beethoven. Michaleangelo. Dickens. Common treats? Mentally ill/psychotic. Brahe. Morse. Tesla. Crazy habits and behavioral patterns. According to Hans Eysenck, psychotic tendencies translate well into creative endeavors via overinclusiveness
Tetrapharmakos is the four-part cure Epicurus recommended for leading the happiest possible life: Don’t fear god, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy
In 2007, I was writing an essay I submitted for St Gallen university’s prestigious annual symposium. Instead of conventional and well-trodden topics such as leadership/entrepreneurship,
Noah got drunk drinking wine (yayin) – God told him to enjoy it. Bible says that God gave wine to make men glad. Wine makes us
Who is consultant? Over on WhatAnimalAmI I took the quiz with a mindset of a typical consultant. My result: lion. Breeding ground for self-narcissists? Google
What costs $0.99, has been bought about 1 million times, and generated about $2 million and counting in revenues? An iBeer. That’s right, a simulated
Mobile-app developer Jonathan Stark is an idealist. He fully charged his Starbucks gift card and posted its barcode online, offering free Starbucks coffee to the
Who is Slavoj Žižek? According to the following excellent article, he is the Magician of Ljubljana. Intellectuals possess a special kind of power. Unlike politicians,
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