A long time ago I wrote an article explaining how to be interesting, and one thing I've wanted to follow up on is the idea that one of the keys to being interesting is being interested. One of the bes…
Some people are askers, some are guessers. I tend to be a guesser and would probably be better off asking more — and I suspect many other people are in the same boat. Guessing is guessing; your guesse…
When I was an earnest young Catholic, I was fascinated with Saul turning into Paul on the road to Damascus. A lot of personal-finance writing follows the same arc — a moment of realisation, a total U-…
I'm both attracted and repelled by the self-improvement genre. We should get better at things as we go through life — but a lot of the popular stuff astonishes me. Puett and Gross-Loh offer a useful c…