Adaptation—good fit to reality—is as old as life but very different for humans given our power of language. Here we imagine a beginner's guide for us newfangled language users.

It is a basic understanding in anthropology that the course of human evolution differs fundamentally from that of other animals due to its heavy reliance on cultural rather than biological adaptation.

Last spring, I watched a fintech product team spend 40 minutes in a "psychological safety exercise." They shared feelings, validated one another, then fell silent when faced with deploying their new ...