Forward or Back? Why One Path to Connection Uses the Very Thing It’s Trying to Get Past

I spent an evening not long ago with someone who has given a large part of his life to a single question: why do human beings feel so

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What You Know Is What You’re Worth: A Rule That Contradicts Itself

You've heard the line. Someone doesn't know something everyone else in the room seems to know, and someone else says it, half joking. "Where have you been, living

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The Blank Stare I Keep Getting When I Say “Human Connection”

I say the words "human connection" a lot. It's close to the center of everything I do. And more often than I expected, I watch the same thing

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“We’ve Always Had the Flint Blade and Spear”: Why That’s Not the Rebuttal It Sounds Like

A while back I was talking with a gallery owner, a painter himself, someone whose whole life is built around seeing things freshly. I shared an idea from

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