People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

There are lots of issues more important than where billionaires donate their money.

I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?

Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!