Understanding Addiction

After all this public speaking, I’m going to get really personal in this post. Sort of like spring cleaning. It’s also a good chance to practice my narrative writing, in case I ever manage to start my next book. I just woke up from two rotten dreams. They used up half my night. In the […] (Read the rest.)

Yesterday was the day. I was pretty nervous all week. About every second time I practiced it, I seemed to get something wrong, like taking a wrong turn on a country road and ending up at a muddy dead-end, looking at a swamp. But the auditorium was beautiful. Plush and purple and warm with people […] (Read the rest.)

What a great conference!!! PINC (People, Ideas, Nature, Creativity) is like a Dutchified version of TED, and the main theme seems to be creativity — that’s what the “C” stands for — and what creativity looks like across disciplines including: science and its societal relevance, art and design, food, philosophy, and a few others. It was beautifully […] (Read the rest.)

Here it is, guys. A write-up of that talk I’m going to present. Actually, it’s a bit of an approximation, because I have to give another talk next week, before TED, at something called PINC, and I’m allowed 20 minutes instead of 8 minutes. So….this is more elaborate than what I can say on TED. […] (Read the rest.)

Hello! It’s been awhile. This is vacation time in the Netherlands. The kids are out of school for two weeks and we’re trying to do family-type things. I know, it’s a strange time to vacate, but the weather here is so spotty, this might be one of the few periods likely to get some sun […] (Read the rest.)