One of the great miracles of life is our ability to change.

How well a team communicates is often an indicator of its potential success or failure.

Madame President, Council of Elders, Representatives, we meet today, near the end of 2042—a year of incredible highs and lows, one that saw the first human, baby Evelyn, born on Mars and the last of the arctic glaciers melt. We meet with a mixture of awe and despair to consider the future of Earth and humanity.

There is something is compelling about memes so influential that they galvanize human connection and activity in ways that advance the totality of life's experience. While the scope of a new religion is far beyond my comprehension, I often find myself interested in those technologies that have explicitly sought to alter, expand, and refine consciousness.

Meaningful bonds on a team are invaluable.

Solid bonds allow team members to navigate challenges together, confidently propose, test, and refine ideas, ask for help when needed, and find solace during troubled moments.

The internet is a gift to anyone who wants to do research. However, it's no substitute for the curated knowledge of a dedicated university library.

Most of us have an intuitive notion of self. And it is usually woefully limited.

By default, we have an off-the-shelf concept of self that comes through direct experience and cultural inheritance. Given the role of self and its wildly ephemeral nature, it seems worth exploring at least a little bit.

Questions initiate revelation.

Intentional questions can surface layers of valuable information.

Questions can also be wildly manipulative.

Sometimes we want to accomplish things. Professional things, personal things, romantic things, spiritual things.