Let's talk about selling – when should you sell and when should you stick? Specifically, we're talking about three very different and distinct variations on the question. The first is capitulation. This is when you sell and go to cash because your view of the market is so negative or because the e...

Day 1: Bessel van der Kolk is lovely. He's humble, he's funny, and he is the premiere researcher on the neurobiology and/or efficacy of trauma treatments in the world. And cute and brilliant, of course. Here are nearly random gems from 3 hours of notes: With trauma, there are no stories, onl...

A couple of days ago I took a break and went to Disneyland. For those of you that have been there, you will recall a prominent sign posted at its entrance. It reads: "Welcome to the happiest place on Earth." I love that sign. It always reminds of my childhood experiences at Dis...

"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." Voltaire There is an idea floating around in my head that is a bit difficult to bring to light. I say it is difficult because it can be taken as controversial. I don't mean to be controversial, I just w...

Those who seek to shield their young from the cruel world, by putting them in classrooms that don’t grade, and sports activities where there are no losers, are missing the whole point. The sooner a person learns that the entire world, as we know it, is based upon competition, and that personal per...

Virtual reality schemes have long tantalized geeks with unrealized visions of holodecks and long-distance cybersex. Now, a group of British researchers want to round out the experience with virtual touch, taste and smell. To simulate the real world, they argue, all five of your senses must be stimul...

Many people assume that morality — our sense of what is “right” and just in this world versus what is wrong — is something we formulate through a process of time, experience and thinking. We equate morality with higher reasoning and not a base instinct like hunger or the need...

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy has written a new book, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding to be released this spring, and the New York Times' Natalie Angier has a little story about Hrdy's thesis, that alloparenting was the key to human evolution: Our capacity to cooperate in g...

InterClick president Michael Katz had a nice writeup in MediaPost today entitled Ad Budget Crunch Puts Pressure On Supply Line. I believe that ad networks are going to be disintermediated in some capacity over the next few years and Katz sheds some light on this notion (from an opposite perspective....

About His Deposit...: Caroline Hall was supposed to sign the contract a month ago guaranteeing a kindergarten spot for her son at an Upper East Side private school. He had already spent two happy years attending its early-childhood program. But Ms. Hall, a corporate counsel, began ducking the school...