yonason goldson

Commit yourself to be more trusting and more trustworthy Even when we aren’t living under quarantine, there’s no such thing as too careful. Or so it would se...

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 to the top of the sli...

Thanks to Austin Bollinger for inviting me on his Daily New Years podcast. Austin led a thoughtful conversation diving deeper into topics from my TED talk, ...

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 got home? Sadly, we ...

As we struggle with the challenges of coronavirus quarantine, it’s worth considering the opportunity boredom provides Ah, the wonderful days of springtime. T...

5 practical insights from the coronavirus outbreak The German philosopher Friedrich Hegel observed that the great lesson of history is that no one learns fro...

There's something paradoxical about poetry: the rigid structures of such classical formats as sonnet, haiku, even lymeric, seem to inhibit the free-flowing c...

In his book "Imagine," Jonah Lehrer argues that too much freedom granted by too little structure may actually impair our imaginations, allowing them to run w...

You remember HAL - short for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer. It was the archetypal artificial intelligence that guided spaceship Discovery acr...

I spent about ten frustrating minutes of trial and error trying to make a simple adjustment to my new computer monitor that the instructions failed to clearl...

I had never heard of Stefan Molyneux before this week, when I watched his 2017 interview with Dave Rubin. Although his ideas are certain to inflame the PC cr...

A lesson in greatness from Jeopardy! icon Ken Jennings In one of many memorable scenes from the Disney classic Miracle, Coach Brooks — played pitch-perfect b...

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. Actually, it starts with how...

Many thanks to Melissa Lopez for inviting me on her Be A Force podcast. Melissa’s sparkling personality and irrepressible energy made for a lively and enjoy...

If you’re old enough, you’ll remember the frustration of sitting through endless, inane television commercials before you could continue watching your favori...

Does anyone like commercials? Do you remember the days when you had to sit through endless, inane sales pitches before you could continue watching your favo...

Thanks to Ricky Kalmon for the opportunity to engage in compelling ideas and deep thoughts on his podcast. Here are a few interview highlights: "There’s not...

. There's no reason to complicate our New Year's resolutions. Photo credit: Image by Johannes Plenio from Pixabay