For all I write about emotional skills, social skills, and keeping calm, sometimes I get furious like anyone else. It’s happened a few times recently. Amid overwhelming success, looking back, the book launch had problems. And it was crunch time for over a month. I’ve worked through plenty of crunch times, but even a lot of experience can’t overcome all emotional challenges. You can get angry when you have expectations,[…] Keep reading →

My Inc.com post Saturday, “2,461 Blog Posts in 2,191 Consecutive Days,” began 2,461 Blog Posts in 2,191 Consecutive Days What I learned in six years posting daily On January 29, 2011 I wrote the first blog post of an unbroken streak. Today finishes the sixth year. Tomorrow I’ll start year 7. Here’s the blog: www.JoshuaSpodek.com, and here is an archive of all the posts. Here’s a picture of the blog[…] Keep reading →

Walking to class today, Martin Luther King Junior Day, I saw this sign on Sixth Avenue, saying, simply, “I’m Sorry. — White People”. It doesn’t make sense to me except to judge people by the color of their skin and not the content of their character. Maybe there’s some context where it makes sense and doesn’t abandon what King called for. Can anyone make more sense of it?

Arriana Huffington recently started an online community called Thrive Global. She and her team picked me up to write for their journal. In fact, one of my posts made today’s front page, so if you click there today, you may see it. Thrive’s content is organized into 6 categories: Wonder Wisdom Well-Being Unplug and Recharge Sleep Giving Wonder focuses on faith and spirituality. Wisdom focuses on burnout, workplace policies and[…] Keep reading →

Hello all, I’m changing the email provider for my newsletter. It turns out the old one was hitting some filters, so some of you may be getting my newsletter for the first time. So if you signed up a long time ago and are just seeing your first newsletter from me, welcome aboard! … and sorry for the delay. I hope you enjoy the newsletter. Why I changed I changed[…] Keep reading →

“Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, so more people want her to be president.“ Sour grapes. And meaningless. Look, I don’t want someone who denies global warming in the White House either, but saying meaningless stuff doesn’t help. All the candidates and all the voters knew the rules of the election years ahead. Winning the election means getting more electoral college votes. Those are the rules. Nobody campaigned to get[…] Keep reading →

Economists always claim that we need populations to grow for economies to grow, which they seem to regard as a necessity. I’ve never understood why growth is necessary, when what we need is to distribute life’s necessities—food, water, shelter, etc—among people. Anyway, take economic growth as a necessity for the sake of argument. Economists also worry about losing jobs to other countries. Well, if having more people doesn’t cause an[…] Keep reading →

  My Inc.com post today, “Post-Games Lesson: You Have Two Options In Life” begins Post-Games Lesson: You Have Two Options In Life Even if we succeed, it can’t last forever. Why do we try? The games in Rio just ended. Even the elite athletes’ glory is fading from the most intense high of their lives, that they trained and sacrificed most of their lives for, to regular lives. As silver-medalist[…] Keep reading →

Once no multi-celled life existed. Each single-celled life lived autonomously. I don’t know how multi-celled life evolved, but it did and the cells in your body with your DNA have little autonomy. Your liver cells do what liver cells do and live in your liver. Your heart cells do heart cell things and that’s it. Your nervous system has some decision-making and control, but they have little autonomy either. The[…] Keep reading →