Find joy in extremism
There’s an often-told Jewish folk tale about a man who complains to his rabbi that he can get a moment’s peace in his tiny home filled...
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Yonason Goldson
- Apr 13, 2020
- 2 min
The midpoint of the world
My untimely discovery of a time capsule encapsulates the end of time What would you ask of a time traveler from a hundred years ago? And...
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Yonason Goldson
- Apr 7, 2020
- 1 min
The sign above the doorpost
Celebrate freedom amidst isolation: a Passover parable This week begins the holiday of Passover, the world’s first festival of freedom....
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Yonason Goldson
- Apr 7, 2020
- 1 min
Celebrating freedom from confinement
A Passover parable This week begins the holiday of #Passover, the world’s first festival of freedom. It comes at a time most of us are...
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Yonason Goldson
- Apr 1, 2020
- 1 min
Into the void
Commit yourself to be more trusting and more trustworthy Even when we aren’t living under quarantine, there’s no such thing as too...
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Yonason Goldson
- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
A leap of trust
Years ago, I took my two-year-old daughter for the first time to the neighborhood park. She fearlessly climbed the six-foot high ladder...
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Yonason Goldson
- Mar 25, 2020
- 1 min
Daily New Years podcast
Thanks to Austin Bollinger for inviting me on his Daily New Years podcast. Austin led a thoughtful conversation diving deeper into...
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Yonason Goldson
- Mar 25, 2020
- 1 min
Balloons for heaven
Why did my four-year-old daughter ask for a balloon every time we went to the supermarket, only to release it into the sky every time we...
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Yonason Goldson
- Mar 24, 2020
- 1 min
The gift of boredom
As we struggle with the challenges of coronavirus quarantine, it’s worth considering the opportunity boredom provides Ah, the wonderful...
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Yonason Goldson
- Mar 17, 2020
- 1 min
The ethics of epidemic
5 practical insights from the coronavirus outbreak The German philosopher Friedrich Hegel observed that the great lesson of history is...
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Yonason Goldson
- Feb 25, 2020
- 1 min
In and out of the box
There's something paradoxical about poetry: the rigid structures of such classical formats as sonnet, haiku, even lymeric, seem to...
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Yonason Goldson
- Feb 24, 2020
- 1 min
Out of the box?
In his book "Imagine," Jonah Lehrer argues that too much freedom granted by too little structure may actually impair our imaginations,...
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Yonason Goldson
- Feb 12, 2020
- 1 min
The ethics of service
You remember HAL - short for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. It was the archetypal artificial intelligence that guided...
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Yonason Goldson
- Feb 11, 2020
- 1 min
Why don't they know that we don't know?
I spent about ten frustrating minutes of trial and error trying to make a simple adjustment to my new computer monitor that the...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jan 30, 2020
- 1 min
The face of evil?
I had never heard of Stefan Molyneux before this week, when I watched his 2017 interview with Dave Rubin. Although his ideas are certain...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jan 29, 2020
- 1 min
Unimpeachable ethics?
We've all had enough of politics. But what if the political headlines contain insights for improving our business sense? Can the lessons...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jan 22, 2020
- 1 min
The Miracle of vision
A lesson in greatness from Jeopardy! icon Ken Jennings In one of many memorable scenes from the Disney classic Miracle, Coach...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jan 21, 2020
- 1 min
Hacking the Jeopardy! matrix
What can we all learn from Ken Jennings's Jeopardy! championship? It really was the battle of the greatest of all time. Jeopardy legends...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jan 20, 2020
- 1 min
There's only one decision
Who are you? Who might you be? Whom do you want to be? It's your choice. It's a choice that starts with how we speak to others....
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Yonason Goldson
- Jan 16, 2020
- 1 min
Be A Force podcast
Many thanks to Melissa Lopez for inviting me on her Be A Force podcast. Melissa’s sparkling personality and irrepressible energy made...
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