Author: Michael Ambrosio

Often, the things we want the most aren’t directly related to the things we need. In fact, they might be very similar to things we already have. Wants are fueled by stories, and stories come from culture and connection and...

Don’t play games you can’t win. If the deck is stacked against you, a smart option is to go to a different table and play with a different deck. The dominant system wants you to wait to get picked. It indoctrinates people, again...

One sort of delusion is believing that we’re smart and skilled simply because we got lucky. This perpetuates a cycle of bad decisions that just happened to lead to good outcomes, and causes people to confuse their wins with...