I’ve been having interesting conversations with friends lately on the respective role and value of intuition versus reason. Here is a link to an interesting and well-written article on point: Many perceive

One factor that clearly impacts our quality of life is the cost of living, and especially the cost of the basics for living. If we must labor constantly just to put food in our mouths, with no opportunity

In my post yesterday we saw how much human life expectancy has improved over the centuries. From less than 30 years, where it had remained for centuries if not thousands of years, it began to skyrocket

Yesterday I asked for everyone’s feedback regarding measures or indicators of human wellbeing. While it’s difficult to measure wellbeing directly, there are certainly some factors that correlate with it.

This weekend I attended my niece’ s high school graduation in Knoxville, Tennessee. I suppose it’s a testament to my short memory that I always dread going to graduations and then almost invariably end

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. —Mary Kay Ash Photos by me. Subject: @steemed-open

I don’t know who experiences more stress relief—@steemed-open from doing yoga or me from watching @steemed-open do yoga. Regardless, yoga is good for stress relief!

Evolutionary psychology comes under constant attack because its theories and conclusions are anathema to both the Left and the Right. The Left despises it because it undermines its worldview that social

Subject: @steemed-open

The Practice

In my last post on this topic some weeks ago, I explained that many gamma males who feel unable to rise sufficiently within the establishment masculine hierarchy innately fear emasculation as a consequence.

Maxim Number 6 is short and sweet. Quite simply: “Truth hurts.” How often are we triggered to anger by the words or actions of others? Perhaps someone makes an unflattering comment about how we look, or

(This post is inspired by author and Harvard Professor Steven Pinker’s latest book “Enlightenment Now”. I highly recommend it) Humans con themselves with astounding frequency. To say it another way, our

Below is a photo of our twins taken with a digital camera from the very early 2000s. The quality obviously sucks (kind of like the quality of blockchain-based products or 3D printed guns today), but it

A couple days ago I explained how several exponentially increasing technological trends (solar power, blockchains, virtual reality, robotics, 3D printing, etc.) are just now achieving 1% adoption, or will

Humanity does not intuitively grasp the concept of exponential growth, and so it’s psychologically ill-prepared for what’s about to happen and, especially, the speed with which it’s about to happen. Due

Photos by me. Subject: Condado, Puerto Rico and @steemed-open

By almost any objective measure, we live in a Golden Age. The poorest ten percent of Westerners today enjoy a standard of living today that our pre-WWII ancestors would have thought miraculous. In recent

@steemed-open in Old San Juan. Photos by me (Nikon D90)

@steemed-open in Old San Juan. Photos by me (taken with Nikon D90).