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Easter Egg Hunt: How Trump’s Trade Policy Has Businesses Scrambling for Loopholes by Howard Yu

Sky-High Tariffs, Shifting Rules, and a Hidden “Made in China” Shuffle—What You Need to Know

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Achieve Light Speed Like Nvidia. Welcome to Work Atomization. by Howard Yu

The Invisible Bottleneck That's Killing Your Career—and 5 Steps to Shatter It Today

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RANKED: The Travel Companies Ready For AI Agents [New Report] by Howard Yu

Discover How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Your Next Vacation

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The Two Sides of Musk: Iconoclast and Ineptocrat by Howard Yu

How Elon inspires so much rage in the classroom, dominates electric cars and rockets, yet flounders at X.

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How a 30-Year-Old Chart Explains Intel’s Fall, Nvidia’s Rise, and DeepSeek’s Disruption by Howard Yu

Timeless Lessons From Clay—And a Gift to the World

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Two Charts Show Presidential Productivity Doesn’t Depend on Early Rising by Howard Yu

The myth of superhuman productivity, forget about the 5 a.m. alarm.

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One Chart Showing Tesla’s Glimmer of Light in 2024 Still Shining

One Chart Showing Tesla’s Glimmer of Light in 2024 Still Shining

Tesla’s stock is tanking, critics abound . . . but could AI be its secret weapon?

Be That Ecstatic Awe Chaser and Beat Burnout

Be That Ecstatic Awe Chaser and Beat Burnout

The antidote to burnout is not downtime. It’s awe. The absence of joy amid a weekend engenders restlessness. We can languish while staying low. Vigor arrives only with meaningful activities.

Seeing with New Eyes in 2024: Here’s Why Thinking About Animals Matters

Seeing with New Eyes in 2024: Here’s Why Thinking About Animals Matters

Amidst the whirlwind of 2024 predictions, let’s shift our focus to something extraordinary—the world of animals.

Embracing Change in the Business Landscape

Embracing Change in the Business Landscape

Executives should think ahead about what could go wrong in their project, picture scenarios where things fall apart. Where might the assumptions be wrong?

Why Your Company Isn’t Agile: It’s Too Fragile to Sprint

Why Your Company Isn’t Agile: It’s Too Fragile to Sprint

Ron Westrum describes three types of organization. Depending on how many yesses you had, your company probably lies somewhere between the two extremes.

How The Best Forecasters Make Forecasting Redundant

How The Best Forecasters Make Forecasting Redundant

Seeing what’s next is hard, even when you’re visionary. In strategy planning, managers often look to the past for situations of worst-case scenarios—that is, the most extreme record of past events.