What Is a Bias Map? A Strategic Explanation for Business and Positioning A Bias Map is the internal hierarchy people use to organize reality and make decisions without conscious effort. It is the reason: Bias maps are not opinions.They are decision infrastructure. From a strategic perspective, bias maps determine who gets considered, in what order, […]
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Categories of Categories: How We Build Meaning Through Mental “Boxes” (and Why Positioning Depends on Them) Last time I got a little intense talking about expression—about being able to explore what’s true, what isn’t, and how truth can be different from “facts” even when people are staring at the same information. That tension matters because
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Why “Think Before You Speak” Sounds Wise—and Still Misses the Point There’s a phrase that circulates constantly online, usually presented as a neat moral checklist: Before you speak, THINK.Is it True?Is it Helpful?Is it Inspiring?Is it Necessary?Is it Kind? I understand why people like it. It gestures toward restraint, empathy, and responsibility. But the more
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Complex Problems Don’t Have Single Causes — They Have Territories When we talk about problem-solving, we usually mean identifying what’s wrong, isolating it, replacing it, and moving on. That approach works well in simple systems—machines, equations, controlled environments. It fails almost everywhere else. In real life, the variables that matter are rarely isolated. They influence
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This and That: Why Complex Problems Don’t Have a Single Cause Most people try to solve complex problems by asking the wrong question. They ask:“What is the problem?” That question assumes there is one problem—one faulty component, one bad decision, one person, one variable—that can be isolated, removed, or replaced so everything else snaps back
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At the Facebook Developers Conference (F8) in San Jose, one word dominated the conversation: privacy. Across keynotes and developer sessions, the message was consistent—Facebook (now Meta) is emphasizing self-policing, internal regulation, and artificial intelligence as mechanisms to manage harmful content, hate speech, and platform safety. On the surface, this sounds reasonable. Necessary, even. But beneath
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The Five Leverage Points to do MORE The Real Question Isn’t “How Do I Do MORE?” How do I create more output from the same inputs. Most people look for: But the truth is simpler and harder at the same time: Most income growth comes from leverage, not reinvention. You don’t need to abandon what
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