Responding to Injustice Part 1: What Would We Have Done?
The new stage version of To Kill a Mockingbird forcers us to confront a tough question: how do we respond in the face of injustice?
Want Your AC Fixed? Good Luck.
We don’t have nearly enough people to build, rebuild or fix our homes, hospitals and businesses. The shortage is one we created. It’s time to get serious about fixing it.
America’s Epidemic of Loneliness Part 4: What Do We Do About It?
We can’t fix the problems of social isolation with loneliness robots or loneliness pills: we need to find new places where social interaction can happen, and do our own part as individuals.
Choosing a Career: Talent or Passion?
A trip to Broadway forces some thinking about the criteria we use to choose our careers.
America’s Epidemic of Loneliness Part 3: Suicide and Friendship
There are a lot of things public policy makers can look at to reduce the number of suicides in the US. But one thing all of us can do is to be a better friend.
Concentration in Older Age Part 2: Finding Focus
An epic quest to discover new ways of concentrating longer….
Concentration in Older Age Part 1: What to Do When the Force Ain’t With You
What can you do to improve or recover concentration when you get older? How do you find The Force?
America’s Epidemic of Loneliness Part 2: The Connection to Mass Shootings
Loneliness is growing — with high costs for all of us
Why (and How) to Save “The Institution”
When our trust for the institutions that make everyday life possible crumbles, we all suffer. How to rebuild that trust?
America’s Epidemic of Loneliness Part 1: Why We Should All Care
An epidemic of loneliness is creeping across the United States. What the numbers show.
The Book That Changed My Life Part 2: Living the Inner Game
One book Bill Gates, Tom Brady, Al Gore and Itzhak Perlman agree on… and it’s not really about tennis.
The Book That Changed My Life Part I: Playing the Inner Game
How I went from cussing racquet basher to hushing rookie Buddhist