What tragedy keeps teaching us, if we let it

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s 1927 opinion, and the Nazi defense that quotes it

Where decisions get dangerous

The wisdom of Dolly Parton

Unchecked, It's cruel.

A habit you never outgrow

Discernment in the AI Age

Lost and Found in our ’64 Chevy

The line between clarity and chaos

The five step apology no one buys

The Second in a History Series: The Stories You Don't Hear

A crash course in trust and gratitude

I know many folks who think everything is broken and times have never been worse. Bunk! At the risk of sounding like that grumpy old guy…

Where it Lives and How it Fails

In my seventy years roaming this earth, I am perplexed as to why so many people have a hard time being kind. Is it so hard to say hello, or…

No App Required

It started with boredom and the Tour de France. I was at work, doing the thing where your body is present and your soul has already left…

Tuesday, I wrote about my great-grandfather and a man named Ota Benga. The two didn’t know each other, but they both participated in the…

First in an occasional series on history that doesn’t get a plaque

We are obsessed with death. I think it’s because we don’t know what lies beyond and not having an answer leaves us fearful. We don’t like…

My dog cannot miss anything. I’m not kidding.

Waiting was the Process

Preliminary Field Notes — Department of Behavioral Anthropology

Good news. Science has a name for why people act badly online, and it’s not sociopath.

We live in noise. Constant demands, relentless change, the pressure to perform and produce and keep moving - and somewhere inside all of it, the quiet question of whether the life you are building is ...

Some Are Monsters Online

Hope is not wishing something gets better. Hope is taking the actions to move toward something, regardless of whether you succeed or not…

There’s a collective sense of exhaustion today.

We live in noise. Constant demands, relentless change, the pressure to perform and produce and keep moving - and somewhere inside all of it, the quiet question of whether the life you are building is ...

My mother never once described herself as humble, never had to.

On humility undone

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My oldest once asked me why the sky is blue. I told her. She asked why that made it blue. I explained. She asked why again, and I began to…

On curiosity, and Why Questions matter more than Answers

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On Gratitude, Recognition, and the Moments that Stick

Leaders Think They Do It. Most Don't.

There is a paradox at the center of modern life. We’ve never been more connected. We carry devices that can reach anyone, anywhere, in…

The word isn't in the dictionary -- But you know it

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Mindfulness is a good start. But without the deeper work, serenity will always be one subscription away.

For years I didn’t have a name for what was driving me. I pushed myself, worked harder, achieved more, sought acceptance in places that I’d…

The conversations we avoid

13 Questions that frame your business' worth

What We Miss About Ourselves

13 Questions that frame your business' worth