Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

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Daily Chase #236

Apr 09, 2026
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Colin Fisher opens his book, The Collective Edge, with a simple but profound observation: we’re living in an age of unprecedented individualism. The decline of collectivism — the belief that we are all part of a larger whole — has rendered the world nearly unrecognizable to our ancestors from a century ago.

Here’s the tensio…

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