My Patriots are back on top of the NFL. As a season ticket holder for many years, I'm thrilled to have a great team on the field again. This season,…

Marchetti’s Constant is the idea that, throughout human history—from cave dwellers to ancient Greeks to modern-day New Yorkers—people tend to commute for about an hour a day: 30 minutes out,…

I hate the snapping of approval that has become so popular these days. I was telling a story on stage last week when a handful of people in the front…

Every summer and during the Christmas holiday, Howard Marks, the co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, writes a memo for all to see about his investment strategies for the upcoming season.…

I love this story: My friend owns a business that requires large, expensive machines to cut and shape metal. One of the machines he recently bought has been defective. The…

The Guardian reported on words most hated by a selection of English poets. These included: redacted pulchritude appall Pulchritude, by the way, means "physical beauty or attractiveness." It's one of…

Cup stacking, also known as sport stacking, has become a regular activity in many physical education classes around the United States. More than 5,000 American schools now include stacking in…

A survey asked Americans what time period they would want to live in and found that: 40 percent said they would prefer to live in the present, 45 percent would…

In the novel "Breakfast of Champions," Kurt Vonnegut writes: "I make my living being impolite." So rarely have I read a sentence and felt so instantaneously envious. I can only…

Over the last week, a few people online have been less than kind to me. I wrote a list of suggestions for changes in the NFL, which actually spurred a…