Everyone should have a friend who has no idea what your job is and doesn’t care.

When I first started teaching 40 years ago, I focused on basic travel skills: finding the right hotel, avoiding long lines, catching the train, and so on... [thread]

Make sure you know what you're retiring to. This was a hard post to write. I almost didn't write it in fact. I've started and trashed this story many times. But I believe there are important lessons in this story we can learn from. Warning: this does not have a happy ending.

The longest running study on happiness: Harvard's 84 year old Study of Adult Development. Here are 7 lessons from the study to help you live a happier life:

On a walk just now: Wife: I wonder what those little purple flowers are. Me: Those? They’re grape hyacinth. Wife: Ugh! Why do you know that?!

From a post five years ago on “school choice” rhetoric. More relevant now than it was then.

I’d love to see someone like OpenAI do a campaign in the vein of those old AT&T “You Will” ads talking about the types of innovations to look forward to.

Target Removes All Towels From Stores After Soaking-Wet Lunatic Objects To Dryness bit.ly/3oBoZPp

I know this definitely shows my age, but can you name an artist that sounds like they’re having a better time than Huey Lewis and the News? “Do You Believe In Love” came on recently and it was an immediate mood-lifter.

People outside of my area on Nextdoor have a lot of strong opinions about an area that is different than when they used to go there 30 years ago.

As the parent of a child with Kleefstra Syndrome, I’m super glad to hear that it got approved for an ICD-10 code. Great work IDefine !!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ide…

If Homer had been midwestern, Sisyphus would have been raking leaves.

Really curious what happened here. Did someone decide not to get their 2 bottles of ranch or did they just think they belonged amongst the drink mixers?

Preserve Parental/spouse/LRI attendant care services for medically complex & disabled kids - Sign the Petition! chng.it/qxPNGJkQ via Change.org

At the 311 show tonight and all of the screens behind the band feel like Winamp visualizations and are giving me all the feels.