Last week I had started something I'll try to finish here. I had argued that we all have the right to believe what get us through the night. I called that the Right to Believe. I also argued that, collectively we need to be able to be able to deploy unfettered the most productive methods available for figuring out what's true. I'm calling that the Need to Know. Read More

"Every life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first --  the story of our quest for sexual love -- is well known and well charted. Its vagaries form the staple of music and literature; it is socially accepted and celebrated. The second -- the story of our quest for love from the world -- is a more secret and shameful tale. Read More

Social psychology's Relational Models Theory suggests that we interact with each other following two distinct sets of social rules. One is business mode, in which you keep track of who owes what. The other is friendship mode, in which you don't keep track. Read More

Meg, a single woman in San Francisco had her habits and routines. She did yoga after work pretty much every day.  Some nights she got together with friends; other nights she stayed home and watched videos or read. Read More