If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

I don't support everything Bernie Sanders supports, but I support most of it: universal health care, reining in Wall Street, fighting climate change, reversing the growth of income inequality, and so forth. If we could accomplish all this in a couple of years, I'd be delighted. But we can't.

Apple has never allowed ad-blocking software on the iPhone or iPad. This is one among many reasons that I ditched both. Not because I hate ads all that passionately, but because it's an example of the obsessive corporate control Apple maintains over its environment.

You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.

On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.

Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.

The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.