BASSAM TARAZI

Life is at best indifferent and at worst cruel. Times of great loss are especially difficult.

What are those unplanned or imperceptible moments on a nowhere Wednesday that didn’t seem remarkable, or even memorable at all, but that if

Instead of being the compass of our lives, accountability has become the yoke around our necks. It’s more cattle brand than north star....

We've all been there; enduring a meeting at work where someone is droning on about accounts payable, or data loads, or project specs. To...

Each of us has been told about our potential like it was an unused balloon and asked if we had any interest in filling it before we died....

Did you see Olivia Coleman’s acceptance speech at the Oscars? Watch it. It’s impossible not to love her. Why? Because there, onstage, in...

“How are you?” An innocuous question that 99% of the time is answered with either: good, great, fine, ok, busy, or tired. But really,...

Recently, I heard an episode of the “How I Built This” podcast with Kevin Systrom, one of the co-founders of Instagram. The whole thing...

Driving from London to Mongolia in a 847 cc, 42 HP car with 13-inch wheels was sure to lead to some stories, but who could have predicted...

Four separate people sent me Shonda Rhimes’ commencement speech at Dartmouth last year, so it must have been good. It was. If you haven’t...