Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far – and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out.

The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success.

Most of the time you can get away with launching a terrible product, or with not washing your hands, but one time in a thousand, you will kill a person, or a company.

The metaphor for our age is the disappearance of high monkey bars from playgrounds across the country. We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.