Connect, by David Bradford and Carole Robin — Fifteen years ago I met Carole Robin. She was my professor, then. Eleven years later, I felt so strongly about what she had done for me that I endowed a fellowship fund in her name — committing, at the time, more money than I had to my name. It was…

This one isn’t about policy. It’s about civility, dignity, respect, humility, character, integrity, and empathy. It’s about a respect for faith *and* science. It’s about being conservative and pragmatic in the face of current calamities and future ones. This one is about what our grandparents fought for during WWII and…

Cody Keenan, Chief Speechwriter for President Barack Obama, dropped the graduation speech of the year — These are the words we all need to hear. All right, ‘Cats fans. It’s Senior Week. Class of 2020: welcome to The Last Lecture. Maybe literally, who knows. Allegra, thank you. I think we all wish we were together at The Cubby Bear right now. …

Wired This Way, by Jessica Carson — The second time I met Jessica Carson we were in the front row for a live interview of Tim Ferriss with Doug McMillon. We sat down next to each other serendipitously. Casual conversation reminded us of when we first met, and quickly led us to something convergent: we were both…

Therapy, Redesigned — Starting a company is like setting sail for an island that you are not sure exists. Sometimes you end up at that island. Sometimes you end up on a totally different continent. Sometimes you have to rebuild the boat while you are at sea, like the proverbial ship of Theseus…

By Charles Dunn — from my dad’s book The Nurse and the Navigator, now available on Amazon In later years Mom would tell the story of how she and Dad first met at Grenier Field Army Air Force [AAF] base in New Hampshire where she was a flight nurse and he was a recovering…

By Charles Dunn — from my dad’s book The Nurse and the Navigator, now available on Amazon . . . in the course of working on this book I have realized how many stories still remain unknown to the larger world, confined as they are to the memories of veterans and their families …

Fix the Problem, Not the Women — Imagine if 94% of the CEO’s in the Fortune 500 were women, and men were paid at 80% of what women were paid across the board. Can you imagine the male outrage, then? So why aren’t we as men outraged at the inequity women face in the workplace today? A…

When Just the Right Person Shows Up at Just the Right Time — Before spring break of our second year in graduate school, Brian and I had a conversation about travel. I was headed to Kenya and Uganda on a service trip that forever changed my life. He headed off to Brazil for a friend’s wedding. Or so I thought. I came back…