PrefaceThe following is advice for my 18-year-old daughter and my 15-year-old son. Not all of it is applicable to both of you. It should be noted that both of you are already following the most important principle: you are good people. In many ways, you are better adjusted human beings than I was at your... Continue Reading →
The Golf Conundrum – A Justification
I recently went on a weekend golf trip to Arizona with a good group of guys. One might imagine that, in general, the demographic of guys who go on weekend golf trips would tend toward a bro-ish, self-absorbed, perpetual adolescence mindset. I hope that generalization's not true, and for our group, it wasn't. Still, I... Continue Reading →
Tabula Plena
"I think we have reason to believe that the mind is equipped with a battery of emotions, drives, and faculties for reasoning and communicating, and that they have a common logic across cultures, are difficult to erase or redesign from scratch, were shaped by natural selection acting over the course of human evolution, and owe... Continue Reading →