Perspectives

Summer 2024 (adapted from Rays of Truth) . Our species is desperately suffering. Despite extraordinary advances in science, technology, and medicine, humans ceaselessly harm one another and our natural world. Somehow, we seem uniquely unsuited to thrive in the very environment that we’ve created. We need to level up our minds to better live with…

Spring 2024 (adapted from Medium’s Future Human Series – 2018) . Our lives on this planet have improved in many meaningful ways over the last century. On average, we are healthier, more literate, and live longer than ever before. Despite these positive changes, clear signs exist that we are in the midst of an emerging…

Winter 2016 (published in Thrive Global) . Remember that conversation you were having with a friend, when you heard your phone beep; Remember that conference call with your colleagues, when you saw an email notification pop up; Remember that time you were driving home, when you felt a familiar vibration in your pocket. Many of…

Fall 2012 (special to CNN) . The rapid evolution of mobile technology has placed quite a burden on our brains. Nowadays, attention to even the most pressing of matters can be interrupted at any moment by a familiar buzzing in the pocket – a friendly nudge to “pay attention to me!” that many find virtually…

Winter 2001 (adapted from Comewander.com) . Our reality is merely perception.  It is a representation of our surroundings that we construct based on our sensory input.  This reality that we have created, indeed which has evolved, allows us to successfully adapt and survive on this world.  However, we often forget that our senses reveal only…