Beware of unintended side-effects

The technology of our era is allowing ideas to spread around the globe at incredible speeds. Good ideas, bad ideas, truths and lies spread like viruses on steroids, capable of leaping oceans in milliseconds and infecting millions if not billions of people simultaneously. Take the 2006 FIFA World Cup, for instance. The 2006 tournament was …

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What are you waiting for?

Every once in a while you come across someone who says one valuable thing after another. Roman Emperor for 19 years, Marcus Aurelius was the last of the "Five Good Emperors" and is considered the most important of the Stoic philosophers. His words ring true as much today as they likely did when they were …

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