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Through Elevate, Mats Lederhausen shares purpose-driven insights on transforming complexity into action, fostering optimism, and building a healthier, more meaningful future.
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We keep changing the driver (opens the original)
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In 2008 I invested in a Swedish weight-loss company called iTrim. It did not treat weight as an information problem. Nobody needs to be told that vegetables are better than cake.iTrim built programs around food, motivation and social architecture. The last of those was the real invention, and it was borrowed from Alcoholics Anonymous. Meetings at a specific time. People who notice when you do not show up. Peers who have already done what you are trying to do. It was structure producing outcomes,
The Distance Between What We Believe and What We’re Willing to Say (opens the original)
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What Happens When Nobody Is Average? (opens the original)
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In the years after the Second World War, the United States Air Force had a problem it could not explain. Its planes kept crashing, not in combat. The cockpit had been designed around the average pilot, built to the mean of hundreds of measurements taken across thousands of men. On paper, it was the cockpit that fit everyone.A researcher named Gilbert Daniels decided to check. He measured more than four thousand pilots across the ten dimensions that mattered most to cockpit fit, then asked a simp
Who Forms Us Now (opens the original)
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We are living in the most informed society in human history. Nearly every fact, book, lecture, and scientific paper sits within reach, and artificial intelligence is making knowledge more abundant still.Yet wisdom does not seem to be keeping pace. If anything, the distance between what we know and how we behave is widening.Our problem is no longer a lack of information. It is a lack of formation. Information teaches us what is true. Formation shapes who we
When the Data Runs Out (opens the original)
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Over the past century, our understanding of nutrition has evolved dramatically. Ideas once considered settled have been revised, replaced, or abandoned as new evidence emerged. After more than forty years in the food industry, I have had a front-row seat to that evolution.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="email-input" name="email"
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