“The thing is,” Mark Knopfler says of his craft, “if you’ve energized somebody . . . or you’ve sensitized somebody, you’ve made a difference.”

Here’s a wide-ranging conversation I had with the good people at the Institute for Leadership Training, in Brazil.

It's not where you got an idea that matters, but how you came to accept it.

I elaborate on the similarities and differences between logical and conceptual fallacies.

Here’s the video of a talk I gave at LevelUp 2024. I’ll share the accompanying slides below—along with two extra slides I prepared but didn’t use

This fun fantasy novella offers an opportunity to reflect on identity and self-esteem.

Is your work meaningful and interesting to you? If not, do you have a plan for how to transition to work that is?

From someone who's journaled over seven hundred and fifty thousand words

This spinoff to The Handmaid’s Tale, set in the same tyrannical theocracy (the Republic of Gilead), alternates between the perspectives of three very different women. Aunt Lydia, the only character who’s in...

Logical fallacies are not the only errors that retard thinking.

I did something kind of nuts, and it took forever, but I think it clearly shows that pop music has definitely gotten worse.

Here are three big takeaways I got from my week at the New Intellectuals Conference.