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    The long way home
    Yonason Goldson
    • Aug 12, 2021
    • 1 min

    The long way home

    "Let your eyes look directly forward, and your eyelids will straighten your path." --Proverbs Or, as Yogi Berra said, if you don't know...
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    Keep your hands to yourself
    Yonason Goldson
    • Jul 7, 2020
    • 1 min

    Keep your hands to yourself

    Is COVID the cure for saving social intercourse? Despite the mandate to shelter-in-place imposed by COVID-19, an astonishing number of...
    5 views0 comments
    The world is going insane
    Yonason Goldson
    • Jun 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    The world is going insane

    Where are you going to put your trust? In technology? In government? In experts and pundits? There's only one place to put your trust:...
    16 views0 comments
    Context is everything
    Yonason Goldson
    • Dec 9, 2019
    • 1 min

    Context is everything

    We complain about the cold. We complain about the heat. We complain when we have too much going on. We complain when we have not enough...
    2 views0 comments
    The gift of disorder
    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...
    2 views0 comments
    Randomness may save your life
    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...
    6 views0 comments
    The Gender Paradox
    Yonason Goldson
    • Aug 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    The Gender Paradox

    A deep dive into the androgyny of great leadership Successful leaders instinctively pivot between the competing roles of commander and...
    14 views0 comments
    And the answer is...
    Yonason Goldson
    • Aug 14, 2019
    • 1 min

    And the answer is...

    Some problems have no answers. Some answers are slow in coming. Or, as John Lennon sang: there are no problems; only solutions. We want...
    7 views0 comments
    Something's melting faster than the icecaps
    Yonason Goldson
    • Apr 2, 2019
    • 2 min

    Something's melting faster than the icecaps

    If we want to solve our problems at the top of the world, we need to start by looking at the ground beneath our feet Tucker Carlson is...
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    Two cheers for pain
    Yonason Goldson
    • Mar 4, 2019
    • 5 min

    Two cheers for pain

    Reaching for the Aspirin bottle is not the only option I'm a big fan of headaches. Not at the moment I'm having one, of course. But...
    52 views0 comments
    The latest theory of why we are here
    Yonason Goldson
    • Feb 27, 2019
    • 3 min

    The latest theory of why we are here

    The universe is not what it seems. Neither are we. Big Bang. Spontaneous generation. Evolution. Natural selection. According to...
    228 views0 comments
    Are you a lunatic?
    Yonason Goldson
    • Feb 5, 2019
    • 1 min

    Are you a lunatic?

    Let the moon guide you through the dark phases of your life Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance. Why? Because today the moon is...
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    Adversity is in the eye of the beholder
    Yonason Goldson
    • Jan 16, 2019
    • 3 min

    Adversity is in the eye of the beholder

    Sometimes we only learn to see after the lights go out Imagine that you woke up this morning to discover that you’d lost your eyesight? ...
    80 views0 comments
    Wee beasties
    Yonason Goldson
    • Jan 9, 2019
    • 1 min

    Wee beasties

    The wisdom of John Simpson, my Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh.
    11 views0 comments
    The Midpoint of the World
    Yonason Goldson
    • Jan 3, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Midpoint of the World

    I'll begin the year by revisiting these thoughts from 2016. What would you ask of a time traveler from a hundred years ago? And if you...
    32 views0 comments
    Salvation
    Yonason Goldson
    • Dec 31, 2018
    • 0 min

    Salvation

    7 views0 comments
    The way things are
    Yonason Goldson
    • Dec 24, 2018
    • 0 min

    The way things are

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    3 tips to program your internal GPS
    Yonason Goldson
    • Dec 20, 2018
    • 1 min

    3 tips to program your internal GPS

    To drive in Israel can be a near-death experience. In some ways it’s better than it used to be. Traffic has gotten so dense that drivers...
    6 views0 comments
    Mapping the genome of the soul
    Yonason Goldson
    • Dec 5, 2018
    • 3 min

    Mapping the genome of the soul

    The festival of Chanukah warns that light can become darkness As you’ve surely heard by now, a Chinese geneticist announced last week...
    45 views0 comments
    Your career may be killing you -- literally
    Yonason Goldson
    • Nov 28, 2018
    • 3 min

    Your career may be killing you -- literally

    A new study suggests that choosing the wrong job can destroy your will to live Do you want to live a long and happy life? If so, don’t...
    49 views0 comments
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