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What Endurance Athletics Has Taught Me
Most people want to get in shape in a fraction of the time it took them to get out of shape. A vast majority also want to win the lottery and fall in love over night. The key to success in endurance...
View ArticleListen, Learn, and Empathize
Two of Tyler Cowen’s six insights from the Kavanaugh saga. 1) Alcohol is an underrated factor. I am struck by how many of the accusations — from various women, not just Ford — suggest a role for...
View ArticleThe Bilingual Brain
A new book by Albert Costa. A paragraph to ponder from Adrian Woolfson’s review: “Intriguingly, bilingualism appears to slow the rate of progression of Alzheimer’s and can delay the age of dementia...
View ArticleTaking A Pass On Human Empathy
Susan Glasser in The New Yorker, “Fifty Thousand Americans Dead from the Coronavirus, and a President Who Refuses to Mourn Them”. Impossible to argue with this description: “To the extent that he...
View ArticleWe’re All Fools
If I was stuck on a deserted island, and could only have one person’s writing to keep me company, Richard Russo would get serious consideration. Russo introduces his beautiful essay, “My Father, The...
View ArticleDo We Need More Therapy Or Fiction?
One of my college besties is a psychotherapist in the city of Angels. I sent him this George Saunders essay, “Could I understand the people who rushed into the Capital?” and then asked him whether we...
View ArticleBe Your Own Therapist
I trained a ChatGPT AI chatbot on my childhood journal entries to talk to my inner child. “Young Michelle told me: ‘I’m honestly proud of you for everything you’ve accomplished. It hasn’t been easy,...
View ArticleTo Empathize Or Not
There’s an interesting line in Netflix’s new Bernie Madoff docudrama trailer. Something to the effect that, for Madoff, being a serial liar was much easier to accept than ever admitting to being a...
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