A few years ago I got this (paraphrased) question in an email from a woman who had received my email about driving a stock car down at the Miami-Homestead Speedway at 135 mph.  If I recall correctly, she objected to two things: 1), that I would take such risks when I was a mother, and [...]

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When you’re trying to choose a direction in life, a place to pour all of your creative energy, it feels better to have a reason. (Not that one’s required, but we’d like to think we’re basing life direction decisions on something.)  (Yes.  You can actually just flip a coin and choose between two directions based on [...]

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I was blown away by the choices these brave servicemen and women made to keep Spc. Channing Moss alive.  Sometimes you have to break with protocol.  Warning: the video is a bit graphic. Takeaway: what rules are you willing to break, what norms are you willing to step outside of, what ego-driven thoughts are you [...]

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In his book A Farewell to Alms, professor Gregory Clark of the University of California at Davis suggested that the values that lead to economic prosperity may be encoded in your genes.  In his study of English economic history, Clark deduced that the most prosperous families in the Middle Ages had more children, and those [...]

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