Engineering school, plus a few decades in the medical device industry, has given me ample reason to spend lots of time thinking about accuracy and pre...

Successful photography demands constant attention to tradeoffs and compromises. My preferred subjects are birds, and they rarely agree to pose patient...

Did you know that every September, many birds transform themselves into completely different species?

Redstarts metamorphose into robins, summer tana...

In Part One of this series on conflict, we looked at what we do that turns a difference of opinion into the sort of toxic confrontations we all dread,...

We’re talking about conflict.

Last time we looked at the origin of the word itself. Conflict is literally about bashing things together.

The word ca...

To bash together.

That is the literal meaning of the word “conflict,” from the Latin com- or con-, for “with or together” and fligere, meaning “to st...

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Last week we introduced Patient SM. If you missed it, start here.

By age four, a rare genetic disorder called Urbach-Wiethe dis...

In the year 1965, at an undisclosed location in the United States, a little girl was born with an extraordinarily rare genetic disorder called Urbach-...

I do not like cold water.

I was a swimmer in high school, and I vividly remember a particular morning practice the day after the pool had been emptie...

Through my hobby of bird photography, I have become adept at a very specific visual distinction: tree, or not tree.

I suspect we all have an evolutio...

The summer air crackled with a strange energy as I sat on the deck with coffee. Nature has a lot to say if you know how to listen. She expresses her m...

The intention of this blog is simple: help people feel better, so they can work better and live better.

It is exceptionally difficult to think clearl...

Our daughter, Abby, is an eventer. Don’t worry if that means nothing to you. It meant nothing to me ten years ago either. Eventing is one of the eques...

Just the other day, Martha and I set out for a walk with our dogs, Ruby and Spark. Spark is two years old, and is highly enthusiastic about, well, pre...

Drawing lines is easy. Knowing where and when to draw them is hard.

From time to time, work and life present us with difficult decisions that leave u...

Surely they are going to cancel.

I remember that thought as we entered the week of March 9, 2020. Our daughter was scheduled to swim in the Kentucky ...

Although you might not have been around to see it open in theaters, you are almost certainly familiar with a film released in May of 1977 starring thr...

I’d like to begin this week’s post with a nine minute, forty-six second assignment. Grab your headphones or earbuds and watch Richard Goodall sing Jou...

Welcome back to our final installment in the Immunity to Change series!

In the previous parts, we defined our Stated Commitment (Part 1), identified ...

Welcome back to our deep dive into the Immunity to Change process developed by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. In Part One, we defined our improvement go...

Last week we introduced the powerful Immunity to Change mapping process created by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. If you need to catch up, start with Pa...

If you find behavior change trivially easy and are someone who can simply make up their mind to instantly and effortlessly adopt new and improved acti...

You can look up the numbers on behavior change, and the success rate thereof, but the truth is you probably don’t need to. You probably already have f...

Wherever we go, wherever we are, we are always in some sort of feeling state. Our feeling state is a continuous, subjective, nonverbal evaluation of h...