In a seventeenth-century building in the town of Sèvres, just west of Paris, there sits a 1.5 inch diameter, 1.5 inch tall cylinder made from an alloy of ninety percent platinum and ten percent iridium.
It resides under three bell jars, like a shiny metal center to a transparent Russian nesting d...
You’ve probably had this experience: stopped in multiple lanes of traffic, you sense your car unexpectedly rolling backward. A sudden wave of adrenaline washes over you, but then drains away like the surf rolling off a rocky shoreline as you realize it was not you rolling backward, but the car ne...
Victory came at 6:12 p.m. on Day Two of the battle.
Instead of a white flag, my adversary signaled their surrender by displaying an administrator login page in my web browser, indicating that the device I had been struggling to bring up on my home network was finally online.
I will spare you the ...
In my mind, I can encapsulate the last year or two and the people I know—friends, family, and acquaintances—in an imaginary sphere, personally significant, but admittedly a mere speck in the grand scheme of things.
What do I find inside that little bubble of life?
There is, of course, much that h...
A text message buzzed my phone one spring day a couple years ago. It was a concerned neighbor unsure what to do about two fledgling hawks on the ground in her front yard.
Inquiries like this are a somewhat regular occurrence. Friends and family know me as a bird lover, so they send their ornithol...
Naming companies is hard.
When Martha and I set out to name our business, we wanted something that conveyed our desire to help people sort through their greatest challenges, make sense of our complex world, build better relationships, and work better, collaborate better, feel better, and live bet...
The odds are good that you are reading these words on a mobile device made by Apple, Google, or Samsung. The odds are even better that your device contains a chip made by TSMC—Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
If you are of a certain vintage, you might think of that little silicon mirac...
Before we signed our daughter up for her first riding lesson, Martha and I had no experience with horses beyond an occasional trail ride at a state park—the kind that is akin to those amusement park cars where you pretend to steer when they are really on rails.
It was a new world, we were in way ...
The year is now 2025! By the time we reach its end twelve months hence, fully one-fourth of the twenty-first century will be behind us.
Between now and then lies a new year of opportunity. What will you make of it?
As for me, I began the new year making piles of snow.
The holiday season is upon us, and, ready or not, your emotional intelligence skills are about to be tested!
Last week we shared the first two composite scales and six dimensions of the EQ-i 2.0® model in ways that we hope offered useful distinctions while simultaneously making you smile.
This we...
It is rarely a lack of cognitive horsepower that derails careers, loses sales, damages relationships, or results in failed leadership initiatives.
Instead, these setbacks and missed opportunities usually result from a lack of emotional intelligence.
I have been called “stoic” on more than one occasion. I suppose that’s understandable, though my outwardly subdued demeanor belies the relatively high amplitude tides of my inner emotional experience.
I might look stoic, but I often don’t feel stoic.
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