Heroes
The Non-Linear Court Vision: Anticipating the Unseen
Earvin "Magic" Johnson didn't just play basketball; he conducted an orchestra at 120 miles per hour. Standing at 6'9", he fundamentally broke the traditional blueprint of a point guard. While coaches of that era valued linear, systematic play—running predictable sets down the floor—Magic thrived on raw, intuitive, and highly responsive processing. When you look at […]
The Missed Steve Jobs Story: A Path to Empathy
The Missed Steve Jobs Story: A Path to Empathy The big swing and miss in Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs is his portrayal of Jobs's journey to empathy during the 1990s. There is another perspective, as shared by retired Pixar Animation Studios executive Dr. Ed Catmull. Steve Jobs’ journey to expressing empathy Backstory It […]
The Anatomy of an Edge: Kurt Cobain, ADHD, and the Physics of Rejection
Kurt Cobain remembered the dividing line. There was the childhood before his parents divorced, and there was everything that came after it. “I had a really good childhood, until the divorce,” he recalled as an adult. Afterward, his “whole world” changed. He remembered the shame of coming from a broken family and desperately wanting the […]