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The Reality You Cannot See

The Reality You Cannot See

When you look at the world through your One Big Idea lens, you see opportunities others are blind to. In that way, it is just like the Electromagnetic Light Spectrum. There are light waves flying all around us — radio, microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray. But humans can only see visible light.

Study a panoramic idea for long enough and you’ll start to see its effects everywhere. People with intimate knowledge of One Big Idea monopolize a narrow band of the light spectrum, which gives them access to ideas and opportunities regular people miss.

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The Age of Performative Reading

Consuming as many books as possible has become a competitive sport for knowledge workers who want to show off their intellectual curiosity. To do so, they race through books like they’re collecting mushrooms in Super Mario Kart.

This modern reading habit stems from deep-rooted cultural in...

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Richard Mosse’s Big Idea: Photograph the Invisible

Richard Mosse’s Big Idea: Photograph the Invisible

In Incoming exhibit Richard captured the experience of refugees from North Africa and the Middle East using military-grade thermal detection cameras. Instead of capturing visible light, it detects body heat, which the human eye cannot see. 

Mosse represented his subjects in unfamil...

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Rich Barton’s Big Idea: Power to the People

Rich Barton’s Big Idea: Power to the People

Barton has founded three billion-dollar companies: Expedia, Zillow, and Glassdoor. 

On the surface, these three companies look different. But they are mirror images of each other. All of them attacked a big opaque market, such as travel, real estate, and corporate recruiting. They used ...

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