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53 Years One Championship

Posted: June 17, 2026

The Knicks won the championship after a 53-year drought. They reached the championship series by developing better practices (NOT BEST, which breeds complacency) that enabled them to perform at an elite level.

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Simulations and Rollplaying

Posted: June 16, 2026

Simulations and Roleplaying
Airlines have been using simulators to train pilots. Simulations allow them to train and assess their pilots’ ability to perform under disruptive and volatile conditions.

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Leader Intelligence

Posted: June 15, 2026

Leader Intelligence
In the airline industry, turbulence is a fact of life. They aren’t trying to get rid of it, but rather, they train pilots to safely adjust to it. Notice I said adjust rather than adapt, because adapt implies a sort of status quo, whereas adjustment implies gradual changes based on the operational environment.

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Thrive Through Disruption and Volatility

Posted: June 11, 2026

Thrive Through Disruption and Volatitlity
Disruption within our operational environments requires the proverbial surgery. Think of Apple and the iPhone. To thrive, Apple’s competitors had to develop a strategy to regain market share.

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What is the Hero Mindset™

Posted: June 8, 2026

The HERO Mindset
General of the Army and later President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, is the epitome of the HERO Mindset™. He was a staff officer who never commanded troops until the North African Campaign (Operation Torch), when he served as a three-star general. That campaign was successful but not perfect. There were failures, and if Ike had done like most today and made himself into a victim and ceded total control to external factors, perhaps we would be living in the German or Japanese-occupied United States.

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The Reality Distortion Field

Posted: June 1, 2026

The Reality Distortion Field
When colleagues at Apple Inc. talked about Steve Jobs, they often used a strange phrase: the Reality Distortion Field. It wasn’t about deception. It described Jobs’s uncanny ability to make people believe that what looked impossible might actually be achievable. As Walter Isaacson notes in his biography, engineers frequently found themselves accomplishing things they had previously dismissed as unrealistic.

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Fabricated Delusions and Manufactured Hallucinations

Posted: May 25, 2026

Fabricated Delusions and Manufactured Hallucinations
Psychology defines psychosis partly through two hallmark symptoms: delusions and hallucinations. Delusions are fixed beliefs held despite contradictory evidence. Hallucinations are perceptions experienced as real, even though no external stimulus exists.

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What is the The Epistemic Psychosis™?

Posted: May 18, 2026

What is the The Epistemic Psychosis™?
We often say we live in polarized times. But polarization assumes something important: that we still share the same reality and disagree about what to do with it. The more troubling possibility is something deeper—what I call The Epistemic Psychosis™.

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The Day We Stop Trusting Reality

Posted: May 11, 2026

The Day We Stop Trusting Reality
There was a time when disagreement meant debate. Today, it increasingly means something more dangerous: we cannot even agree on what is real. The issue is no longer simply polarization—it is the erosion of a shared reality.

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