Out of the blue one day while driving with my wife Deb and our younger daughter, my mind turned randomly to oxygen. As a scuba diver, I suddenly blurted out—naively—that the cost to fill a tank must be the reason that the sport is so expensive, since it’s the only…
Hippocrates—the “Father of Medicine”—literally founded the practice, including the use of prognosis, clinical observation and the systematic categorization of diseases. He famously observed—correctly—that “Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
With his insight, he was pointing us toward one of Nature’s two most enduring features: that its closed-loop, zero-waste, efficiency-driven…
Not a day goes by that I don’t ask myself how we got here. How we inherited a world of limitless, self-perpetuating bounty so big and complex that we still barely understand it; and yet, somehow, we have managed to mortally squander our inheritance, nonetheless.
Medical intervention provides us with…
Something I read recently resonated deeply—about the subject on everyone’s mind: When will this pandemic finally be over?!
That article, in the The Atlantic, offered the following viewpoint:
“Scientists have their own way of deciding that a pandemic is over. But one useful social-scientific marker is when people have gotten…
Following a particularly powerful meditation this morning, a new thought dawned on me: that there are three distinct states of consciousness in which we live our lives. They are being, relating and projecting.
Rules apply.
We employ notes, tattoos, posters, books, therapists, friends, marginalia, memes, coursework, magnets and mantras—all so as not to forget important, yet often fleeting, lessons.
We do this because it is one thing to know something, yet another thing entirely to remember, practice and embody it. Doing the right thing is…
As we did just yesterday, every winter weekend that I’m not in NYC, my family and I drive North from Toronto, through Ontario’s so-called “Greenbelt”—a protected swath of agricultural farmland—to ski. …
Just a week ago, I wrote a piece for Index called The Future of Work to illustrate that full-time employment as we know it is on the way out, and that self-directed, networked, values-driven entrepreneurialism is quickly replacing it. In it, I shared that 94% of all new U.S. jobs…
A disturbing multi-media Op-Ed I read today in the New York Times brings its readers to every country in the world, one by one, illustrating the tangible impacts of climate change in each. …
One hundred billion humans have come and gone. For every Aristotle or Einstein, there have been countless others whose names and deeds died with them. Nearly no one outlasts their contemporaneity.
We are here for a moment, then swallowed by time.
Of course, it doesn’t feel that way. Our pains…
