11 Nov How Marvel Went From Bankruptcy to Billions
If your company hit rock bottom financially, would you know which single asset to bet everything on to survive?...
Popular Culture
11 Nov The sunk cost fallacy
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in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Big Think, Business, Management, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology
Have you ever kept funding a project not because you believed in it, but because walking away felt like admitting defeat?...
11 Nov The economics of K Pop
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in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Music, Politics, Polymatter, Popular Culture
When a music fan buys a CD they will never play, what are they actually purchasing?...
11 Nov Why Everything Takes Longer Than You Expect
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in B1 - Intermediate, Braincraft, Business, Economics, Management, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology
Why do you almost always underestimate how long a project will take, even when you have done that exact type of project before?...
22 Oct 10 ways to have a better conversation
When did you last finish a conversation and think "that went really well" rather than just "that's done"?...
22 Oct How the rich avoid paying taxes
Do you actually know the difference between income tax and capital gains tax, and why that difference matters so much to the people at the top?...
22 Oct How Zoom Defeated Skype Company Story
How did a product that was free, already installed on millions of devices, and backed by Microsoft lose to a startup almost nobody had heard of?...
22 Oct The language of lying
If someone is lying to you right now, would you even notice?...
18 Oct Beeple Explains The Absurdity Of NFTs
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in Art, B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Business Insider, Economics, Popular Culture, Technology
Can you own something that has no physical form and that anyone can copy for free?...
18 Oct Inside LEGO House, Denmark’s tribute to the famous brick
What does it take for a toy made of plastic bricks to become the world's most valuable toy brand?...