Caroline Mays

"If you're 37... Instead of regretting that you can't wake up age 18 again, pretend to yourself that you're 90 and you've woken up age 37 again, and that you get to magically, wonderfully have the next 50 years again."

Entrepreneur Will Ahmed on living a well-rounded life:

"Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home."

I think there should be more art in the world. I think there should be more art in corporations. I think artists in residence have proven to be powerful within corporations. I think artists should be more comfortable in their role. And again, what they’re doing is often useless and that’s hard to justify in a corporation. But we know that actually... See more

On his deathbed, Darwin himself lamented having failed to keep feeding his mind those greatest nourishments of the empathic imagination — none mightier, he believed, than poetry and music — turning it instead into “a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.” He saw, from the wistful vantage of nearing the void,... See more

What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?

I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more