Eric Pratum @ericpratum

A company can become too stable to survive. @LexSisney explains how a necessary strength, efficiency, can grow until the business loses its ability to respond to change. unfoldingthought.com/rowing-harder-…

Your A-team is starting to look like a C-team. What changed? @LexSisney explains why a business can outgrow the roles its founders fell into, and what to examine before blaming the people. unfoldingthought.com/rowing-harder-…

Working harder won't fix your company's problems. @LexSisney asks what keeps draining the time and energy you already put in, before you commit to working harder. unfoldingthought.com/rowing-harder-…

Everyone has an opinion. Who has to make it work? @LexSisney offers three questions to rescue a circular meeting: the goal, the implementer, and the project’s stage. unfoldingthought.com/rowing-harder-…

@irakresh explains the logic of “colorblind racism,” including racial inequality as evidence of discrimination. She isn't taking a position: opposition to race-conscious policy might be racist or have other reasons. unfoldingthought.com/presumed-guilt…

Once an institution treats a contested question as settled, what does it make of dissent? @irakresh describes the logic that can follow: either they're too stupid to understand or they have some other motive. unfoldingthought.com/presumed-guilt…

You can win the vote and still be wrong. A democratic decision doesn't settle the underlying question or make the losing side share your values. @irakresh on living with the disagreement that survives the vote. unfoldingthought.com/presumed-guilt…

“How could anyone think that?” Try answering it. Take the position you find most objectionable. Can you build a path to it that makes sense to you? @irakresh suggests trying this before you find someone to debate. unfoldingthought.com/presumed-guilt…

You probably don't want your dentist experimenting in your mouth. @a_m_mastroianni argues that science needs more room for exceptional outliers. Standardizing the work can also eliminate its biggest breakthroughs. unfoldingthought.com/why-breakthrou…

Show us the breakthrough. And prove it will be useful before you start. @a_m_mastroianni argues that requiring proof of usefulness in advance can screen out discoveries nobody yet knows how to recognize. unfoldingthought.com/why-breakthrou…

Try explaining gravity without stopping at the word "gravity." @a_m_mastroianni gets as far as spacetime before his own explanation runs out. Why doesn't that bother him until he tries to explain it? unfoldingthought.com/why-breakthrou…

Low pay. Job insecurity. @a_m_mastroianni would accept both to do research and describe it honestly. He says academia encouraged him to lie. He left and took his work directly to the public. unfoldingthought.com/why-breakthrou…

You're a good judge of character. Can you explain how a toilet works? @a_m_mastroianni starts with why the water returns to the same level, then questions our confidence that we understand other people. unfoldingthought.com/why-breakthrou…

At least 16 years listening to @thebeancast, and this weekend I joined the panel for the first time. I think it’s the best marketing podcast around. Thanks @bobknorpp, @adamsona and @maryrodgers! thebeancast.com/beancast-marke…

The conversation is still going. That doesn't mean either of you wants it to. @a_m_mastroianni asked people when their partner wanted to stop. Their guesses were off by about half the conversation's length. unfoldingthought.com/why-breakthrou…

What happens when a Palestinian peace activist visits Auschwitz? Sami Awad went to acknowledge Jewish historical trauma. Some people in his own community called him a traitor. What did the visit change? unfoldingthought.com/life-in-palest…

Has Christianity become weak because too many Christians stopped following Jesus? Sami Awad is a Christian, nonviolent Palestinian activist. He believes members of his own faith often fail to act as their faith demands. unfoldingthought.com/life-in-palest…

October 7, 2023, as described by someone living in Palestine. Sami Awad was teaching at Bethlehem Bible College when sirens sounded. He watched what happened and how Israelis and Palestinians responded. What did that day look like from the West Bank? unfoldingthought.com/life-in-palest…

Can you imagine someone coming to your home and forcing your family to move? Sami Awad’s family has lived in Palestine for 800 years. Now he wonders whether this conflict could force them from their home. Is any reasonable solution in sight? unfoldingthought.com/life-in-palest…

What made a man in Palestine happy today? Running water. Sami Awad’s neighborhood had water for the first time in almost a month. Residents had 24 hours to fill tanks before it stopped again. What does daily life in the West Bank look like today? unfoldingthought.com/life-in-palest…