The great promise of gene editing is that it will transform medicine. The peril is that it will widen the healthcare divide between rich and poor.
Read MoreWhen conflict escalates past a certain point, the conflict itself takes charge. The original facts and forces that led to the dispute fade into the background. The us-versus-them dynamic takes over. Actual differences of opinion on health care policy or immigration stop mattering, and the conflict becomes its own reality. High conflict is the invisible hand of our time.
Read MoreThere is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.
Read MoreWe bring up kids to make their own choices. We don’t teach them to place all their trust in external authority - political, religious, or philosophical.
Read MoreThe relentless overload that’s wearing us down is generated by a belief that “good” work requires increasing busyness—faster responses to email and chats, more meetings, more tasks, more hours.
Read MoreThe key to using optimism to enhance resilience is in rejecting black-and-white, either/or thinking. Resilient people use both optimism and pessimism strategically to gain the critical insights and information they need to adjust to change.
Read MoreCompanies are often faced with a predicament about whether to play it safe and maximize their resources (known as exploitation) or look to new products, areas, or partnerships for growth (known as exploration).
Read MoreCrime works best, he says, not with overpowering force but when nobody knows it’s being committed.
Read MoreWe’re living in what they call the ‘information age,’ but life only seems to be making less sense. We’re isolated, listless, burnt out on screens, cutting loved ones out like tumors in the spirit of “boundaries,” failing to understand other people’s choices or even our own.
Read MoreA “no-nonsense” woman is “cold,” “bitchy,” and disliked. If she expresses frustration or anger at being treated unfairly, or even asks for help, she is considered less competent and less deserving of pay or reward.
Read MoreI always find more answers in a forest than in my own hot attic of a mind.
Read MoreSomething about today feels so full of hope.
Read MoreIf you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.
Read More2023 was a busy, fun, and exciting year at Beguiled By Books. Check out all the stats from reading this year and see the best books I read in 2023.
Read MoreNOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, SO DO WHAT YOU WANT.
Read MoreGatherings crackle and flourish when real thought goes into them, when (often invisible) structure is baked into them, and when a host has the curiosity, willingness, and generosity of spirit to try.
Read MoreIt’s a story about the toxic brew of confirmation bias, fuzzy math, and hubris. It’s a story about what people will do when they are allowed to spend other people’s money with minimal oversight.
Read MoreThe magic is not in the analyzing or the understanding. The magic lives in the wonder of what we do not know.
Read MoreWhether wicked or well-intentioned, language is a way to get members of a community on the same ideological page. To help them feel like they belong to something big
Read MoreWe must learn to invite the winter in. We may never choose to winter, but we can choose how.
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