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We spend most of the time we're in school extinguishing imagination. "Will this be on the test?" is a much more common question than "What if?" We've been traine ...

It used to be an obscure oddity, now we all need to understand it. 18 years ago, I posted this image: and I still can't get it out of my head. Sorry. Why do we have such a creeped-out ...

This is where empathy lies, and it's an easy chasm to fall into. "I can't imagine eating durian ice cream," is not the same as "no one likes durian ice cream." W ...

Popular is easy to measure. Good, not so much. Setting out to make something popular requires only a focus on the crowd and on the moment. Most pop music is popular simply because that's what ...

After playing 498 days in a row, my score today in Bongo was the second-highest in the world: There's a difference between casual online games that have a right answer, and those that are ope ...

It's not slop because it was created by an AI. It's slop because it's slop. I just read the first two pages of a sci-fi novel on my Kindle. The author proudly proclaims that the 4 ...

Pundits are saying that Netflix "lost" the bidding for Warner. Actually, they won. They didn't just win because they got a nearly $3 billion breakup fee. They won because in just ...

Orson Welles may have said, "Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck." I think it's more productive to imagine that "Justice is how society deals with luc ...

Is a complete sentence. So is, "yes."

It's nice if you do, but it's not required. You're not them. You may have had different experiences, been exposed to different ideas or simply be prepared to make different choice ...