Erik Foley

Like many insights, this one started with a crisis, this one of my own making. This crisis was built from bad advice for students I have trafficked in for years, convenient half-truths passed on for my convenience than for their edification. Here's what I mean: Student A says:

I love to cook. In fact, I am THE cook in the house. If you too are the cook, you know the pressure to deliver timely, tasty nutrition. There is nothing like a great frying pan that cooks evenly, has a sturdy handle and is non-stick. On many nights, a

After reading Walter Isaacson's excellent biography of Steve Jobs.  As someone interested in entrepreneurship, I was amazed by the brash, bold vision of Jobs, Wozniak, Ives, Schiller and the many others behind Apple's revolutionary products. There is a certain intellectual and emotional rush one experiences with

Our brains aren't ready for this.  Our top-shelf brains aren't good at long-term emergencies. Distant effects of our actions especially those that don't match our identity and world-view, are easily dismissed. Per Espen Stoknes, a psychologist with a PhD in economics, chairs the Center

I am worried the move to remote work will make things better in ways that we can see and it will make things worse in many ways that we won’t. Better in ways we can see Clearly one of the great benefits is for families to have more parents

Whether cramming for a test, listening to a sermon or watching an instructional YouTube video, we all get that elusive feeling: "oh I got this!" We fall victim to the idea that learning is a passive activity. We even use language such as saying someone is a "