I just finished reading “How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence” by Michael Pollan.
The book cites the “flight instructions” used by guides when facilitating psychedelic experiences
Read MoreI was at the ADL’s 2019 Never is Now Summit last Thursday to hear Sacha Baron Cohen’s remarkable speech, in which he called out the uniquely destructive influence of Facebook.
It doesn’t surprise me that the speech has gone viral…
As a first generation Trekkie (Kirk will always be my captain), I invested two minutes watching the trailer for the upcoming Picard series on CBS All Access. The trailer includes this quote from Picard:
“The past is written. But we are left to write the future.”
While I hate to contradict the former commander
Read MoreOf the many powerful moments in The Great Hack – a documentary that's the subject of a recent Mind Mint – one stands out as particularly memorable. It’s a quick exchange between Brittany Kaiser, a former Cambridge Analytica executive, and an interviewer…
Read MoreI recently met an engaging, accomplished professional who described one of his keynote speaking engagements to me in glowing terms. Coincidentally, I knew several audience members who had a less-glowing impression of that speech.
Since I sensed that he could take it…
For many of us, An Inconvenient Truth was a wake-up call to the existential threat of climate change. I hope that a new Netflix documentary, The Great Hack, will serve as a wake-up call to what may be an even greater threat.
The film examines how Cambridge Analytica…
In her book, On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis writes, “not only do all known human cultures make music, but they all make music where repetition plays a defining role." Repetition helps us understand what’s most important and remember what we’ve heard.
When it comes to the spoken word…
I interviewed Michael Bloomberg on camera for a corporate video a few years before he became mayor of New York. The video was for a health care company that was profiling leadership styles across industries.
After the video crew finished setting up
The Declaration of Independence ends with this sentence:
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
The signers meant it when they…
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