The Story Economy Blog

My mom has been trying to get rid of stuff. She is 85 and still lives in the house where I grew up. Though she has no plans to move from the house anytime soon, she’s doing this sly thing of making us take stuff home with us when we visit. A few weeks…

When I’m not writing essays about how I realized my daily glass of wine wasn’t so great, stories about teenage YouTubers, or books about honesty, I help hospitals figure out their web content. I spent a few days last week with the marketing team of…

Do you have distinct parts of yourself that get into long and tedious arguments? I do. Right now, it’s the “ambitious” part of me and the “have some perspective” part of me. The ambitious part of me fundamentally believes that I’m on a path…

When you walk into a bookstore and your daughter sees the book she’s been seeing on the desk in your office for weeks, actually there in the bookstore, part of a display that contains other books that are clearly real books, and finally gets that you…

What an interesting thing it is to have your book release not just on the last day of the year, but on the last day of the decade. Would I Lie to You? The Amazing Power of Being Honest in a World That Lies comes out today, December 31, 2019! It makes…