shifting perspectives

Intelligence is not central to the success of most life on Earth. Consider the grasses: they’ve flourished across incredibly diverse global environments, without planning or debating a single step. Planarian worms regrow any part of their body and are functionally immortal, a trick we can manage only in science fiction. And a microscopic virus effe... See more

The current scientific consensus isn't truth. It's a temporary agreement among specialists working within shared assumptions. Scientific dogma that excludes uncomfortable or challenging ideas isn't science at all—it's intellectual cowardice. True scientific inquiry requires us to investigate even those phenomena that challenge our fundamental assum... See more

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent; it is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

The health of a relationship depends on the amount of uncomfortable conversations people are willing to have.

Poetry is the art of proving that a few words

are worth more than a thousand pictures.