The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.