As Tommy Lee Jones famously asked another actor in The Fugitive, “Do you want to change your bullshit story?”
Ted Gioia offers 8 techniques for judging someone's character (even, perhaps most usefully, your own). "See how they treat service workers. Their true self comes to the forefront."
My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character
Vsevolod Garshin, Russia’s most underrated writer, was both an incorrigible idealist and a skeptic paralyzed by doubt ... Garshin
The first ordinary woman in English literature, the Wife of Bath gossips, drinks, and tells her husband’s secrets... secrets
The Baby Boomers Changed Everything. What Happens When They’re Gone?
They were a cohort of historically unprecedented size, whose basic need to be clothed, fed, housed and educated was a decades-long jobs creator and economy stimulator. And they were a cohort whose massive size and timing meant cultural and economic dominance for much of their lives. - Washington Post
