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Rainforests have so much biodiversity and life they are truly the most beautiful and magical places to be. Unfortunately all this life is also quite dangerous to humans. So they’re best enjoyed in small doses.

It is so easy to get distracted these days. Here’s what I’ve been getting distracted by in the last hour of writing: My phone — somehow I ended up on Twitter My dock — I keep checking for a red text message icon The music A fly was buzzing around and really threw me off…

I hate clubbing. The music is too loud. People don’t have a reason to communicate; in fact, just the opposite: any attempt to communicate with anyone is usually frowned upon. 90% of communication is nonverbal anyway, but I have a hard time communicating this way on instinct. Maybe other people do, too, which is why…

There’s literally nothing wrong with being “too hard on yourself.” It’s a common critique of people, like me, who have particularly high expectations and seek to achieve them. It usually comes from people who don’t want you to succeed, for whatever reason. Maybe they’re jealous. Maybe they just want their friend back. Being hard on…

One of the hardest things you ever have to learn is how to be wrong–not just to be wrong, but to be seen as wrong. Those are two different things because many times when you’re wrong you can keep it to yourself and no one is the wiser, but having other people notice you’re wrong…

Nothing, literally nothing, gave me more joy than watching Brienne of Tarth get knighted by Jaime Lannister. If anything perfectly encapsulates the series: the redemption found by its worst characters combined with the triumph found by its best, the hope of the future and the betrayal of the past, the importance of friends and honor…

I wrote yesterday about my family’s seder and how it’s different than everyone else’s; tonight, I was invited to another family’s seder and got to see just how different. At risk of exposing the closely held private traditions of a family not my own, I won’t reveal too much, but suffice it to say it…

Like most Jewish families mine has an annual Passover tradition that bears only some resemblance to that practiced by every other Jewish family. Why? Because tradition isn’t tradition unless everyone does it slightly differently. I haven’t historically been preoccupied with Passover–some years I haven’t celebrated at all–but this year we got the whole family together,…

I found that walking to work, which takes about 30 minutes, leaves me infinitely happier when I walk into my first meeting than taking the subway to work, which takes about 20 minutes. Just getting to see my neighborhood from above ground and its colorful hubbub, the cyclists on their morning routes, the finance types…

I was invited by a friend tonight to see “JP” (as he calls him) live at the Beacon Theater in New York. I had just finished his book so I was curious what hearing the author in the flesh would be like. I’ve heard so many things about how reviled this man is, but also…