The ethics of car insurance commercials
Does anyone like commercials? Do you remember the days when you had to sit through endless, inane sales pitches before you could...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jan 6, 2020
- 1 min
Amplify Your Mind podcast
Thanks to Ricky Kalmon for the opportunity to engage in compelling ideas and deep thoughts on his podcast. Here are a few interview...
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Yonason Goldson
- Jan 1, 2020
- 1 min
Keep it simple, sunshine
. There's no reason to complicate our New Year's resolutions. Photo credit: Image by Johannes Plenio from Pixabay
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 27, 2019
- 1 min
Light amid darkness
Why does #Chanukah come at the darkest time of year? The darker it gets, the less light we need to make a difference. We all go through...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 23, 2019
- 1 min
Burst your comfort-zone bubble
The universal lesson of Chanukah through the prism of fluted glass Raise your glass of champagne to toast the holiday season. And then,...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 18, 2019
- 1 min
The source of good and evil
What the Jersey City massacre teaches us about ourselves Paradoxically, extremism begins with the noble human passion for attachment to...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 17, 2019
- 1 min
Slave mentality
Imagine that your fifth-grader comes home from school with the following homework assignment: "You own a plantation or farm and therefore...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 11, 2019
- 1 min
Is Peloton the essence of evil?
The problem with producing a weekly ethics video is not what to talk about, it’s what not to talk about. Impeachment hearings, refugees,...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 5, 2019
- 1 min
The gift of disorder
For a better life, look for and forward to the unexpected Ralph Waldo Emerson famously remarked that a foolish consistency is the...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 4, 2019
- 1 min
Play Your Position podcast
Click to enjoy my interview with Mary Lou Kayser, a sparkling interviewer who guided a wide-ranging conversation about courage, vision,...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 3, 2019
- 1 min
Randomness may save your life
Do you know which is farther east -- New York City or Caracas Venezuela? Does it matter? More than you might think. Our brains like...
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Yonason Goldson
- Dec 2, 2019
- 1 min
Is ignorance bliss?
You can only see a little through a keyhole. But what if you aren't looking through the keyhole? What if you aren't even looking for the...
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Yonason Goldson
- Nov 26, 2019
- 1 min
The gift of gratitude
Every day is a day for giving thanks If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about...
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Yonason Goldson
- Nov 26, 2019
- 1 min
Is it good to have all the answers?
The Hebrew word terutz translates as “answer.” The same word in Yiddish translates as “excuse.” There are a plethora of questions we...
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Yonason Goldson
- Nov 25, 2019
- 1 min
Ever enough?
The sages say that when a person who wants 100 gets 100 he immediately wants 200. They also identify the one who is rich as the one who...
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Yonason Goldson
- Nov 20, 2019
- 1 min
The purpose of profanity
Is there any benefit to expletives? It all depends on what you don't say.
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Yonason Goldson
- Nov 20, 2019
- 3 min
Your words make you wise
Take back the narrative and turn the tide John Paul Jones once sent a communique from his flagship to the commander of a seaside British...
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Yonason Goldson
- Nov 13, 2019
- 4 min
A moral compass for a lost generation
The stories from our past light the way to our future Where do human values, ethics, morality, and the fundamental principles of civil...
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Yonason Goldson
- Nov 13, 2019
- 1 min
You don't have to choose between being good and being successful
Thanks to Camila Medici for hosting me in a lively interview on her High Vibe Advocate podcast. Her irrepressibly positive outlook and...
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Yonason Goldson
- Nov 12, 2019
- 1 min
The optics of leadership
We should all think of ourselves as leaders and how our actions influence others
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