Content tagged with "society"
A showdown is looming on American Idol which I think is going to be pretty interesting to watch. The top two contenders – the two I firmly believe will fight it out in the last episode – could not be...
Not graduating from high school causes people to judge you, for all sorts of reasons.
If we had to re-make cities from scratch, would they have downtowns?
Almost everybody has heard of “The 10,000 Hour Rule,” which says it takes 10,000 hours of practice to master anything. I actually read the original study (PDF) last year. But I’ve often wondered...
As human beings, we chronically suffer from what I call “Gratifying Narrative Syndrome,” or a desire to confirm narratives that we find emotionally or psychologically gratifying. You see these all the...
I own 25% of my company, which is a significant percentage. This chunk of ownership binds me to this company, in the sense that I see the company as a sort of extension of myself in many ways. I’m...
I’m not against nudity in media, so long as it has a point.
As I write this, America is embroiled in the Ukrainian impeachment crisis. The claim is that Donald Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine in exchange for a political favor – he wanted them to...
Improving the plight of the working poor can be a trickier problem than you think.
Marriage is a bundle. It is, all at once, a contract, a romance, and a spiritual institution. But I don’t think it’s going to stay this way. Marriage is actually three structures, layered on top of...
This article has reinforced a paradigm that I think gets ignored too often by the environmentally conscious: when considering an optional you find lacking, always consider the alternative or the...
I was thinking about marketing this week while I was on a trip, and two things occurred to me that I find distasteful about the discipline. I’m not claiming all marketing is like this, but I’d call it...