John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 01/05/2025The wisdom of tea: “The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgment.” 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 27/04/2025“Building Empathy in a Fractured World”. Seems like a good time to read this…. 110
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 10/04/2025You know your kids are in a good school when a senior administrator walks around offering you “pocket poems.” I picked two good ones. 🤓 🥰 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I ❤️ my local NY public library (100th St between Columbus & Amsterdam). Wonderful service. Super clean and warm. Stewarded by caring and kind staff here. 🤓 📚 🥰 031
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 31/03/2025With so many posts about libraries in my feed I thought I would share the latest book I borrowed…about a library. “What you are looking for is in the library” So true… 📚 🇯🇵🤓. 010
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Freak coincidence? Or…“The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, also known as the frequency illusion, is a cognitive bias where you notice something you recently learned about, and then seem to encounter it more frequently, even though the actual frequency hasn't changed.” 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 22/03/2025One of the first Gmail ads I might be interested in. Oh, Canada! 🇨🇦 👏 🥰 010
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Cultural differences summed up as we pack snacks for the plane ✈️ PBJ for me. 🥜 🇺🇸 Rice balls for my wife. 🍙 🇯🇵 🥰 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Bless the good people who put dinosaur tracks in wet cement on 95th Street, leading from their front door. 🥰 🦖 Makes me smile every time I walk by. 😊 140
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Just started this and it’s fantastic. Insightful, useful, and very funny. 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 01/02/2025We may succeed (by some measures) on our own, but “all flourishing is mutual.” HT to the NY Public Library for this book. A nice weekend read. 🤓 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I found this fascinating. Not just for the stories and science and de Waal’s insights and personal charm, but for how polarized the review comments are. IMHO it’s useful to examine our closest evolutionary relatives’ gender differences and similarities as a backdrop to our own. 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Research for “The Best of Men” program I’m working on. 🤓🤓🤓 011
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Incarceration numbers so high you think, “This can’t possibly be true!” And yet it is. Source: Men without Work by Nicholas Eberstadt. 000
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Not exactly the most uplifting reading, but important data and perspectives nonetheless. 100
John Stepper @johnstepper.bsky.social · 18/11/2024My first post here is about a book & topic I can’t stop thinking about. The more I dig into it, the more compelled I am to do *something* to improve feelings of belonging & self-efficacy, to cultivate “the best of men” (esp working class men), in a fast-changing society. #workingoutloud 110