Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others' ideas, to be rational and/or emotional, to be confident or admit doubt.

What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.

If you have an ability, you want to exercise it, not anesthetize it.

We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.

I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching is done by PhDs, who by temperament, training, interests, and rewards are researchers first. So they spend most of their time and energy probing a snip of a field's cutting edge. In my view, the attributes needed to be a transformative undergraduate instructor are pretty orthogonal to that. It would seem that undergraduate education would be superior if there was a separate track for teaching faculty.