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I have noticed, over a long time, that there is a twenty-minute limit on the kind of conversation I can have alone in a room with my father.
I had a friend in New York, years ago, who was certain about everything.
For most of the last century, the story of automation went something like this.
If you spend any time watching people with very different amounts of money move through the same social spaces, you stop believing the script most of us were given.
According to the World Economic Forum, 39% of core skills will change by 2030. Nearly half of what employers value today will be outdated within a few years.
From the outside, adults without close friends often look self-sufficient, comfortable alone, perhaps even admirably independent.
Here's a finding that stopped me cold: a 2012 study out of Yale found that people with the highest science literacy weren't the most aligned on contested facts.
Children who grew up in the 1960s and 70s typically left the house in the morning, came back when the streetlights came on, and figured things out in between.
The Trump administration convened nearly two dozen evangelical leaders for private counsel in the wake of its strikes on Iran, according to an investigation by The Intercept.
I have a confession.
One has this quiet depth to them.
I've noticed this for years but only recently had language for it.
