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On Metaphors

4 Metaphors for Strategy

4 Metaphors for Strategy

That aren't levers or bridges.
Finn Schubert 23 Jul 2025
How to Collect Metaphors

How to Collect Metaphors

We can reground ourselves in our lives by seeking out metaphors that actually resonate with us.
Finn Schubert 29 Apr 2025

Is my blue your blue?

Who knew an Ikea rug would spark such an existential crisis? Ours is a color-block rug, with stripes loud enough for a child’s room, but sophisticated enough for the living room. (We should know — we’ve had the rug in both places. Right now, it’s in the living
Finn Schubert 25 Oct 2024

Lessons from the Cisco Icon Set

If you designed an icon set from scratch to diagram something important about your world, what would it look like?
Finn Schubert 30 Sep 2024

Kitchen drawers and laundry baskets: On metaphors and data

“Metaphorical thinking half discovers and half invents the world it describes."
Finn Schubert 05 Aug 2024
Entangled in the Culmination Narrative

Entangled in the Culmination Narrative

What to do with the seductive idea that it's all going to come together somehow, someday?
Finn Schubert 23 Jan 2024

Interview: Taking Our Desires Seriously

A conversation with Shea in the Catskills, creator of Tarot as Questions
Finn Schubert 13 May 2023

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