What tempts you to fear? In our brain, the amygdala controls the "fight or flight" response to the information our senses detect. However, humanity doesn't respond in unison to each sensory input.
A bump in the night wakes us out of a dead sleep, to reach for the nightstand gun. Some joker behind a keyboard spends two minutes to create a meme threatening to take something you hold dear, and…
We embrace the metrics' intended consequences at the birth of the metric. The unintended consequences are vivid at its death.
Every parent has lived the dream of their child going to bed without complaint. The absence of this reality prompts a heavy negotiation and a variation of the "quickly to bed" metric. Each night sleep happens…
Chessmaster and martial arts champion, Josh Waitzkin, found the dogma of any particular martial arts form was a strength, but also revealed its weakness. This memory was triggered as I mindlessly scrolled through Facebook and came upon friends' political post. The post spelled out the tenets of the political bloc in succinct manifesto fashion, with the tone of complete disdain bestowed upon anyone deviating from this worldview. The comments were full of ardent agreement.
I have friends and family all over the political spectrum and work in DC…