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Clean Up Your Desk -- Mess Up Your Life Jan. 29, 2026
It's a question as old as time. Which is a better indicator of your performance on the job — ... Read More
Chancellors of the Lex Checker Jan. 28, 2026
The late Supreme Court Justices Harry Blackmun and Antonin Scalia often clashed on matters of law. B... Read More
The Best Terrible Decision I Ever Made Jan. 26, 2026
The most important decision of my life — the one that's had the biggest impact — I made ... Read More
Letting Joy Lift You Jan. 25, 2026
The city invited me to ride on its inaugural hot-air balloon flight. We headed to the local high sch... Read More
Meeting of the Minds: How Do We Tell The Emperor He's Not Wearing Any Clothes? Jan. 24, 2026
MIKE: I hereby call to order the first annual meeting of the tripartite national commission to discu... Read More
What A Year This Month Has Been Jan. 24, 2026
What do you mean it's still January? From Minneapolis to Venezuela to Greenland, a year's worth of c... Read More
Doing a 180 on the Linguistic Highway Jan. 21, 2026
If you're a rate adjuster at my auto insurance company, please skip the following paragraph. One win... Read More
The Cost of Letting Everything Burn Jan. 18, 2026
Living in the desert teaches you a different respect for fire. Fire can clear land, restore balance,... Read More
Deploying to the War on Protein Jan. 17, 2026
Mother, why do you gaze out the window so forlornly? Because your father has gone to fight in the wa... Read More
Multiple Reasons Not to Multitask in 2026 Jan. 15, 2026
Here's what you do. Stand up at your desk. Pat your head and rub your tummy (counter-clockwise, plea... Read More
The Bird Is the Word? Jan. 14, 2026
The bird feeder in my backyard has been aflutter this winter with birds and words. First to arrive e... Read More
Stars of an Arabian Night Jan. 12, 2026
I was speaking in a Middle Eastern country shortly after 9/11. The people were friendly. The food wa... Read More
The World We Could Build Could Be Good Jan. 11, 2026
The pause was brief, but stark, when some of us realized that a square on the Zoom was located in Mi... Read More
The First Three Laws of Travel Jan. 09, 2026
I was at the massive Temple at Luxor, where the pharaohs were crowned. The 3,500-year-old columns to... Read More
Welcome to 2026 -- Keep Your Head Down and Your Shoes Off Jan. 08, 2026
It's a new year and a new dress code. Nobody cares what you wear to work. What matters now is what y... Read More
Shrewdly, These Words Have Improved Their Meanings Jan. 07, 2026
Five hundred years ago, if I had called one of my students "a shrewd lad with dogged ambition," he m... Read More
Marking Time in an Unceremonious World Jan. 04, 2026
The hot take that floated into my inbox this week was that resolutions are passe. Apparently, thinki... Read More
Instead of Resolutions, Try the Reset Method Jan. 03, 2026
Allow me, a moderately cluttered person whose Christmas tree may still be up by next Festivus, to es... Read More
2026 Career Disasters You Just Might Avoid Jan. 01, 2026
You're one of the lucky ones. You have a job. You also have a worry. Will the job you have at the ... Read More
Then and Now, Money Talks Dec. 31, 2025
Some words are on the money. When the word "farm" entered English during the 1200s, for instance, it... Read More
