✍🏼 Essays
💡 Being optimistic does not mean what you think it means
"Football training starts in 45 minutes. How long before you have to leave then?" I shout to the 9-year-old. "In 35 minutes," he calls back, a little distracted."That sounds a bit too opt…" I bite my tongue. "It's...
🛰 The Value of Space Exploration
Earlier this year, both Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos launched their own spacecraft, which was met by a variety of reactions. Space enthusiasts such as myself found it incredibly exciting. It was two small launches among the countless others, perhaps, but also a...
💬 Why we must begin to understand the really big and the really small
People are not good at either the very big or the very small. We are made to work in the middle.For example, we only see a small narrow strip in the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum and only hear frequencies between 20 and 20,000 hertz, even though we can...
💬 Things were better before – weren’t they?
The idea that things were better at some unspecified time in the past is a common notion I hear repeated by people I meet, including various politicians.This worldview is based on the negative assumption that the world has somehow gotten worse and is usually connected...
