One of the chapters in a new book will probably be just this, Getting Over It. And it will be about getting over an injury, a sickness, whatever. The point is that all of us are going to get...

These stories get boring, I’m afraid. But I have to say – yet again – how great it is to go out and bike when it’s “too cold.” It was in the low 30’s up in the Berkshires…but bright...

I go to interesting places to talk but last week was over the top. I had an invite from a four star general at the U.S. Strategic Command in Omaha Kansas. Dinner the night before at the general’s house…a...

Off to Pebble Beach to give two 3-hour talks, on successive days. Even I don’t have quite that much to say. It occurs to me that I am a cover for something else: I drone on to a largely...

To my eternal shame, I did not try to row the Head of the Charles this weekend. But I am delighted to say that my new writing partner, Jennifer Saycheck (Ph.D. and Asst Prof at Tufts and much much...

Hilly and I were on the west coast for talks and decided to come to Aspen a week early, for the Jump Start Week. Genius idea. It is stunningly beautiful out here… aspen leaves turning, warm days and cool...