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What Larry Page and Sergey Brin have in common is a real intellectual curiosity. They want to understand how the world works. 

Embrace change.  Embrace what that future is.  Don’t fear it because that’s your biggest upside. 

With the multitude of social media sites, it’s hard for businesses to determine where they should be allocating their time and resources. And since many are reporting that they’re not […]

Can one read the brain and make inferences about what is actually being experienced by an individual? 

It’s the most fantastic idea ever bandied about: that there are an infinite number of Universes identical to our own out there, and that everything that could have possibly happened […]

Is it my cranky imagination or does Valentine’s Day become more of a big deal every year? All of the second-tier holidays seem to have gotten elevated in the last […]

Most successful company leaders have common sense and sound judgment, leaving their personal feelings and issues aside when business decisions are concerned. However, it is not rare for executives to […]

The average American changes their career about four times. 

The government spends $4 billion a year, pays for 10 billion servings of soda for poor people every year. 

You can manufacture a cathartic experience by writing out what you’re feeling.

It was actually “physics envy” that got us in trouble in the first place. 

Two scientists with different perspectives don’t have to agree on the merits, but they have to agree on why they disagree.

People were talking about a third world war, which thank God didn’t happen.

Our immigration policies are counter to the philosophy of the country and certainly counter to sound economics. 

We really can make a masterpiece out of our own lives if we so choose.

You can become a crazy cat lady if you abandon actual people in your environment and just focus on your pets or your stuffed animals or your live doll or whatever you have.  

Companies too much believe that secrets are their secret sauce.

If you look at the terms of political discourse today in the United States, it’s not a pretty picture.

Big Data is a phenomenon that’s impacting just about every business these days.

The theory is we should protect people from themselves. 

“How do you do that?” young Charlie Parker would ask older musicians. “Would you please do that again?” Those who know jazz, or who only know of jazz greats such […]

 I don’t read leadership books anymore.

Thursday night was an especially chilling Halloween for New Yorkers. We remember well the heartbreaking, senseless deaths of Sandy. The killer storm strained resources across the five boroughs, and plunged […]

I made every possible first-year mistake that a first-year manager can make. 

A galaxy very different from our own may hold the key to seeing what our far future looks like. “We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum […]

I worry about what it’s going to mean as we begin to micromanage the genetics of our children. 

How do I want to put some measurements for myself to see if I can channel my periods of creativity more effectively?

Some people may have influences from allergens or toxins or gut bacteria or may have nutritional deficiencies. 

As I explained a couple of years ago, I lost interest in talking up Constitution Day when the government said we at colleges that get federal money are required to […]

We’re in the midst of a muddle about how to understand the nature of patenting genes.