After my post about Kobe Bryant two weeks ago, I heard from a number of you who couldn’t get over the accusation of rape that still metastasized in the middle of his legacy. I'd acknowledged that Bryant was an introvert who still needed to tell his … [Continue reading]
When we change our routines in a fundamental way—either because we need that change or the interruption is foisted upon us—we sometimes experience our world differently when we return. Glimpses of those differences are possible after vacations, but … [Continue reading]
One way to get out of the box that’s dominated by our value judgments is to make an imaginative leap, like taking on the perspective of someone we admire, and trying to see a situation—it can be any situation where we’re already convinced of our … [Continue reading]
A counter-narrative I kept hearing before the New Year was that everything’s “so much better” than I think it is. I’m fairly certain that’s not true, but my cup is still " half full" (and probably a little more than that) as I start another … [Continue reading]
I want to share with you a short, jarring essay I read in the New York Times this week, but first a little background. For some time now, I’ve been worrying about how tech companies (and the technologies they employ) harm us when … [Continue reading]
