Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.