There is a moment during a Friday night rush when the bar reaches a particular density. Not chaos exactly, but

We spend an enormous amount of time thinking about decisions before we make them. We weigh options. We consult people

There is a lesson that biology teaches quietly, and that most of us miss because we are looking for something

We use the word fragmentation casually now. We say a person is fragmented, a society is fragmented, an attention span

In the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, the global financial system was staffed by some of the

There is a quiet assumption woven into how most people talk about meaning. We say we are searching for it.

Almost no one sets out to do harm. Many non-corporate organizations begin with a mission they genuinely believe in.

There used to be moments in every day when nothing was happening. Waiting for a bus. Standing in a line.

For most of human history, the great challenge of understanding the world was access. Information was scarce, expensive, and tightly

We tend to use the words "reaction" and "decision" as though they were close cousins — two