Adam Little

This is how the singularity goes: wonders become routine, and then table stakes.

“A fundamental paradox at the core of human life is that we are highly social and made better in every way by being around people,” Epley said. “And yet over and over, we have opportunities to connect that we don’t take, or even actively reject, and it is a terrible mistake.”

Never regret a day in your life. Good days give happiness, bad days give experiences, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.

—Professor Richard Feynman

When you are a kid, you move between moments without a conscious plan. Your parents take you out for dinner and you get the chicken nuggets. It’s simple and immediate. As you become a parent, you live all the decisions and effort that went into the single moment. You planned around naps, figured out the best restaurant for kids, planned travel

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In 2000, just 8 percent of partisans gave the other party a zero. By 2020, that figure had shot up to 40 percent. In a 2021 poll by Generation Lab/Axios, nearly a third of college students who identify as Republican said they wouldn’t even go on a date with a Democrat, and more than two-thirds of Democratic students said the same of members of the... See more