It’s that time of year again when I encourage my students to make me cry. Parents and teachers often ask me about how my students so consistently fall in love…
Four years ago, I proposed a new job for myself: The professional best man. I was serious about the proposal but less than hopeful about my prospects, but since publishing…
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that causes incompetent people to believe they know more than they think they know. Unskilled individuals suffer from a false sense of superiority,…
Start something new. Forget about the perfect launch or the right equipment or the ideal partner. Just start. If you find yourself a slave to perfection, remember these three things:…
Yes, it’s true. Play-Doh blundered big time with the design of their “extruder.” It’s kind of impossible to understand how this was produced without someone in the company noticing the…
Now that I’ve posted my New Year’s resolutions for 2015, I have a New Year’s resolution suggestion for all parents: Spend the next year (or even better, the rest of…
The following are my New Years resolutions for 2015. For the first time, I have placed my resolutions in categories to help me keep them in order in my mind.…
In an effort to hold myself accountable, I post the progress of my yearly goals at the end of each month on this blog. The following are the results through…
On Saturday, I played golf. In December. In New England. The course was closed, and there were sticks and pine boughs in place of the pins, but that didn’t matter.…
For the second year in the row, Forbes has declared that Adam Sandler is the most overpaid actor in Hollywood for 2014. This fact is often stated with derision. Just…
