One of the many mini-obsessions I have among the larger obsession of how we make progress is this question of how we deal with the fact that...

I went on a business trip with my wife Friday. She calls them field trips. She teaches 2nd grade and Wednesday her 7 and 8 year olds reached...

There are only two states of mind that precede learning, and neither is particularly pleasant. Before you learn something, you are either ig...

Some parts of a woman's brain change up to 25% through the course of a month. "When I started taking a woman's hormonal state i...

Reading In Search of Bill Clinton: a psychological biography, there is an account of how he helped facilitate the peace process in Northern ...

I have an idea for a research grant. Send researchers off to find the one person who changed their political position as the result of an ar...

From Yahoo : A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermitten...

Malcolm Gladwell's new book, Outliers , is great. He's done it again, putting together a string of great stories that make fairly pr...

There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ...

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. - Bertrand Russell Like all institutions, education helps to ... prese...

It seems like the key to managing large, complex systems is to make sure that no individual can change or impact them. This does, however, h...

I watched and listened to and read transcripts of various speeches from the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. It occurred to m...

Michael Kaufman and I used to be on the board of the local Deming User Group. I've always liked the way he thinks. In his latest post , ...

“For years I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions of society, a little change here, a little change there. Now I fe...

Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone recently interviewed Bob Dylan for the magazine's 40th anniversary. Here are excerpts: Jann Wenner: ... you...