Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different.

When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.

... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.