Writing about the disruptions that society will face as some sectors of society continue to integrate technology, Tyler Cowen discusses those who will prosper in the future — and those who will suffer, including those with “delicate feelings”.

It …

I began running in 2004, shortly after turning 30, when I was diagnosed with skin cancer, and decided to get healthy. I started just walking after work; that progressed to jogging, which ultimately transitioned to running.

I’ve had to take small …

For the first time, today I had a guest speaker for AP Psych on the topic of eating disorders in general and her own experiences with anorexia in particular. This was a student who struggled with anorexia last academic year, missed a month of school …

For the Motivation/ Emotion Unit, I wanted to show a scene from scary movie and then have a discussion about how we feel about scary movies, and how we feel after scary movies. (I also wanted to extend the conversation a bit and talk about dating, …

It is no longer good enough for schools to send out students who know how to do what they were taught. The modern world needs citizens who can do what they were not taught. We call this “learning learning”.

I have held off on writing this reflection for more than a week because I wasn’t sure what to think. I had an intial emotional response that was strong, but that’s not what’s worth writing down; what I need to record for myself are (a) the facts of …

Today, I wrote to my two Senators and my Representative, urging their attention on our broken system of copy"right.“ I'm sure that like all of my other missives to Washington DC, this will fall on deaf ears… but being a citizen of a Democracy demands …

This is for the good folks at #psychat, an exercise in heuristics vs algorithms:

The challenge in Aldridge’s case was that the search team had no clear idea when — and therefore where — he fell overboard. It might have been five minutes after …

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s …

From the Editorial Board of the New York Times:

Considering the enormous value of the information he has revealed, and the abuses he has exposed, Mr. Snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight. He may have committed a …

Over breakfast at Oakland Grill while spending New Year’s at Jack London Square, I asked Christina if she had any Resolutions. She had a few, while I had none. I don’t remember ever really doing the “Resolutions” thing before — but if I did, this …

According to Goodreads, I read 13,271 pages across 43 books in 2013:

Looking at the four 5-star ratings that I gave amongst those 43 books, I’d have to say that my most enjoyable read was Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson, and the best non-fiction …

While the following advice was given in regards to beating Grandmasters at chess, it’s still fun to consider the applications in other aspects of life as well:

• First, avoid errors yourself.
• Second, play relatively quickly.
• Third, see complexity …

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

Amid this din of complaint and trivial offense, how to know what really mattered, how to identify the true crisis when it came along?

You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

Over the weekend, I moved my blog, from a Wordpress install on a remote web-server that I was paying for, to Tumblr. In a previous post, I mentioned the difficulties in sustaining a long-form blog; I think Tumblr addresses many of the problems that I …

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

I am struggling to keep up with this long-format blogging and self-reflection. It is too time-consuming for the return, I feel. Now, that is most certainly a product of ten-years of my professional life having past without fully integrating the habit …

Gratitude is toxic to discretionary retail because of what grows in its soil. The habitually grateful heart is trained not only to give thanks but also to experience heightened awareness. It appreciates simple blessings, like a friend’s voice or a …

Over the many years that I have spent going on retreat with my colleague Mary McCarty, I have heard her tell a story to the students about how the loving communities that surround us remind us of who we really are. Here is my paraphrase of the story …