Since the age of three, our youngest son has been obsessed with baseball. He lives and breathes the sport year-round. He collects baseball cards. We read him baseball books at bedtime. He is fascinated by the players, statistics, stadiums and everything else about the game. Last year, I began coaching…

The rise of competing social apps has impacted engagement far more than revenue — People love TikTok. People love YouTube. People used to love Twitter (before the implosion). People used to love Facebook and Instagram too, but in many ways Meta has become the de facto villain of big tech. Privacy scandals, political misinformation, mass layoffs and widespread distrust have damaged the brand beyond…

You can love people whose values are different than yours. Too often, we are quick to judge others because they disagree politically or otherwise. We’re all on a different path and born into unique circumstances. Many core beliefs developed in childhood are difficult to unlearn. Every life decision should reflect your values somehow. However, you can’t expect the actions and opinions of others to mirror your own. Each individual has their own set of values, but that doesn’t make them wrong. We are bonded by humanity and far more connected than we realize. As Ram Dass wrote: “The soul teaches us that the root of fear is separateness. If we want to be free, we have to overcome separateness.”

Keep creating without expectations — As human beings, we crave feedback. When we share anything online, we expect to hear from someone — be it a friend or otherwise. Even if it’s just a single comment or reaction, we want to feel seen. We’ve made ourselves vulnerable by publishing something personal. …

The company’s new copycat app could easily become its second most valuable asset — Facebook launched in 2004 and reached 100 million users in 2008. When the company acquired Instagram in 2012, the photo-sharing app had just reached the same milestone after roughly two years. Threads, the Twitter clone launched by Meta last week, needed just five days. Looking back on the early excitement…

Silence and stillness aren’t mutually exclusive — Our kids woke up in the wee hours of the morning. They came running into our room. One of them had started crying due to a nightmare and the other one heard it. After the obligatory consoling, reassuring and re-tucking in that we’ve lived through so many times, my wife…

Childhood injuries are inevitable, but they don’t have to ruin us — I’ll never forget my first look at the wound. A deep gash on our seven-year-old’s right leg. My first thought was that it went down to the bone. Blood started flowing out as we all scrambled to determine the next move. Our younger son began crying hysterically, so I immediately…

How a simple lyric helped me appreciate life’s impermanence — Death is a fascinating and inescapable fact of life. Regardless of your religion or upbringing, everyone reaches a certain age where we start to ask complicated questions: When will I die? What does it feel like to die? What happens after we die? My freshman year of college was the…

It’s easy to hide a school shooting from your child until it happens just a few miles from home. Flags at half-mast. Protests downtown. A spray-painted #1 on our son’s little league field in remembrance of one of the 9-year-old victims. An extra armed guard here. An increased police presence there. Black-and-red ribbons tied to mailboxes in honor of the school colors. They might not fully understand, but they feel it. The situation is jarring and scary. When a mass shooting occurs on the other side of the country, you turn off the news and your kids don’t know any better.