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Quite some time ago I remember reading a viral tweet from an American dentist that made me laugh out loud....

Today I want to talk to you about something that sounds like a contradiction: the idea that our greatest weakness,...

For this episode, let me give you a preview of the topics I’m going to talk about: commoditisation, economies of...

Who really rules a market? Who really rules an industry or a society. We usually answer without thinking too hard:...

In German there is a word, Schadenfreude, which roughly translates as “joy at someone else’s harm”. It refers to the...

It is time to take on another one of those topics that is both a curse and a blessing. Let’s...

I have spoken already in previous episodes about the difficulty, in our business, of building knowledge through experience. Because of...

There are words we use so often in this business that, by the sheer act of repetition, they end up...

For many years (20 years or so), as I was writing Freshconomics, I assumed someone, somewhere, must have written the...