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I want to expand on this tweet from Justin Murphy: While Justin’s analysis is true, here’s another side of the story. I’m probably biased beca...

So at the end of my last post, I said that although 3 years ago I was gung-ho about arranging marriages, I’m now more hesitant. This post goes into why. F...

About 3 years ago my wife and I discussed how dating and marriage in her childhood church can be very similar to modern Hindu “arranged” marriages. ...

Last month I was happy to read Hans Fiene’s essay encouraging more people to become foster parents. My wife and I have been fostering for four years, and ...

Jonah Lehrer attributes success to grit and “deliberate practice” rather than talent: The first thing Duckworth, et. al. discovered is that delibera...

Another very busy week this week. Things should get less hectic next week, when I will hopefully have time to write something more substantial. Until then, here...

A couple months ago, Tyler Cowen kicked off a “top ten influential books” list.   Ezra Klein, Conor Friedersdorf, Matt Yglesias, and Ta-Nehisi Coate...

It’s been VERY busy the past couple weeks. Will try to post something later this weekend.

Hello world.  One of my New Years Resolutions (which I generally take very seriously) was to start blogging and writing more.  Creating this site was the first ...