gapingvoid

Will Tennyson has a charming documentary over on YouTube about, of all things, professional bodybuilders. Or, more accurately, its utter weirdness and the price people will pay to chase their dream.

When you see the s...

A few years ago, some members of our team sat in on a very interesting panel at a university conference titled Should Universities Be Run More Like Startups?

On the face of it, it sounds like a great idea. Faster innovation, more risk-taking, less bureaucracy – what’s not to like?

Then a clever professor on the panel made a very good point:

C.S. Lewis wrote, “Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.”

Ever heard of vocational awe? Librarian

Let’s say you’re part of an awesome team. A fantastic group doing great things – a sports team, a startup, a boy band. It could be anything, really.

But even when it’s going swimmingly, a small part of you is haunted by the fear that it’ll all eventually come crumbling down. 

You’re waiting for the other shoe to drop because, hey, it happens to companies...

Ever heard of a “kill chain?”

In military terms, it’s the step-by-step process of destroying a target. First, you identify a potential target. Then you pinpoint its location, track its movements, decide how to engage it, deploy the necessary weapons, neutralize the target, document the results, debrief the team, and prepare for the next assignment. 

Each...