Roughly a month ago, I sat down with a young lady named Samantha, who had just graduated high school. She talked about how she’d been nervous coming to a new town, she talked about her friends’ struggles with mental health, and she talked about her own plans to go on to college and study clinical … More Human Cost
We really like thinking we’re the smartest person in the room. [8 min] … More Cults, Books, and the Appeal of Secret Knowledge
I love language. In part, I love language because of how it helps us overcome basic confusion and try, in a fumbling way, to speak our full thoughts to each other. I had a lot of fun in my book giving the hero an “auto-translate” ability that allowed him to understand all languages (Incidentally, I’m … More On Misusing and Misunderstanding the Term “Racist.”
The Solomon Code 