Grown-up businesses are increasingly turning to start-up approaches as a means to address organisational stasis. You’ll know how fraught this approach is if you’ve ever

Read: How start-ups fall into the ‘sandwich trap’ A delicious, mental model for tackling the 3 fundamental start-up challenges

The things you learn in maturity aren’t simple things such as acquiring information and skills. You learn not to engage in self-destructive behavior. You learn

Motivation research has found that we tend to be the most driven and enthusiastic about a project when we begin it and when we’re about

A fascinating read.

The Sound of Silence – an illustrated serenade to the art of listening to one's inner voice amid modern life's noise https://t.co/gOXfmKDXgo pic.twitter.com/U3p1et06Ox — Maria

Y'all should be supporting @Catalysr with a donation today. Terrific mission helping refugees in Australia start new businesses. https://t.co/lpt6Gdvzik — Justin McMurray (@JuzMcMuz) June 30,

The final Mossberg column.. on ambient technology. https://t.co/Bpqji90ipw — Justin McMurray (@JuzMcMuz) May 25, 2017

RIP Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance https://t.co/v9Voh92aet pic.twitter.com/EDyKCE88Ta — Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) April 24, 2017

It's finally here: the full story on Neuralink. I knew the future would be nuts but this is a whole other level. https://t.co/4I44hFJzFC pic.twitter.com/YVA6dLH8uY —

Here is an absolutely gorgeous long-form piece on Woolly Mammoths, Pleistocene Park, and climate. Made me cry.https://t.co/68gWkD1MLl — Stewart Brand (@stewartbrand) March 9, 2017

Can't wait to get my hands on @mslima's latest 'The Book of Trees'. It looks like another majestic visual feast. https://t.co/EPVPEoopIq — Justin McMurray (@JuzMcMuz)

Video talk: What if we point the camera back at the internet? With @JuzMcMuz at #DoWales https://t.co/zX7P515pPr pic.twitter.com/GaQaC3ROC0 — Do Lectures (@DoLectures) January 16, 2017

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“Bootstrapping gives founders freedom to operate by their own rules w/o compromising their values to appease VCs“ https://t.co/ISusIDW2cU — indievc (@indievc) December 29, 2016

This is an extraordinary (very long) read on the development of AI. The Great A.I. Awakening https://t.co/vuGEZIbzrC — Justin McMurray (@JuzMcMuz) December 16, 2016

My latest for @NewYorker: Silicon Valley's Empathy Vacuum, where I tie together a lot of different strings. https://t.co/Ly8EoIxBcR — OM (@om) November 28, 2016

Startups are overdosing on ambition these days. You Don’t Need a Master Plan — You Just Need to Start

"..in the nihilist moment of disillusionment & anger, in which people lose faith in the old story but before they have embraced a new one."