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Mom used that phrase again: tīnghuà. Which means listen words. Obedient. Submissive. The first time I told her I felt controlled in my relationship with Josh, she had said to me, “Good. You’re a wild child. You need a man to tame you.” I could not understand why she had seemed partial to Josh till …

ALL I WANTED when I was a child was for my parents to pay attention to me. They did not have time to play with me, certainly never during the week, so I spent my time playing by myself, flipping through my mom’s GRE books, doing logic puzzles, reading, planning, and waiting for Saturdays. I would b…

More rhetorical questions: Vince, the president and CEO of a major New York cultural institution, courted Boone through a warm intro. The institution needed money for renovations; it was hoping to better conserve its collection. Vince invited Boone to private tours and special dinners, all of which…

More than one slide of the deck talked about on-demand transportation, which, according to Carbon, offered lower wait times, more customers, more money for drivers, and thus more drivers—what it called a virtuous cycle. Here, and in a few other places, I would read the text and experience a sudden …

So, I dug up the notes from the retreat taken during a session on Distinctive Impact in Community. I read the twenty-nine crowdsourced bullet points. There were no names attached to the bullets, but the sheer number of them, the depth of thought in them, meant that people truly cared. They felt a d…