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.

I'm one of the many people for whom coffee helps but often, inattention is a symptom of something else: for example, that you're not getting six to eight hours of sleep.

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

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

Behaviorism is sometimes criticized as encouraging unethical behavior. For example, most organizations offer rewards for increasing revenue and threat of punishment, perhaps firing if you don't "make your number."

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

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