Curiosity Chronicle

The engineer took out an axe and slammed it into the brick wall.

It was June 1896. The young man had spent months working in a small brick shed behind his rented house, only to realize, at 4am, that the door wasn't big enough for what he'd built.

His name was Henry Ford. His creation, the Ford Quadricycle.

His atomic insight was simple: He began viewing the ...

Last weekend, my family and I made our annual pilgrimage to a small community in northwest Connecticut.

When I was 18 months old, my parents had rented a house there for the summer, seeking an escape from the New York City heat.

The next year, we went back. The following, we went again.

Soon, the tiny enclave became like a second home. I met my two best frie...

I first met Tim Cook in 2014.

I was just starting my career in finance and had signed up for a local gym that opened at 5:00am. I started arriving at 4:45am so I could get to the office by 6:30.

Each morning, there was a small handful of others who would congregate outside the doors at that time. Tim happened to be one of the people in that group.

I'm convinced that the market for telling people what they want to hear is much larger than the market for telling people what they need to hear.

That one fact explains a lot of what you see in the world.

But my goal has always been to be real. Even if it's unpopular. Because everything I write is something I hope my son reads someday...

Imagine two different people on the same mid-January day.

One lives in California. He walks outside in shorts and a t-shirt. The warm sun beams down on his face. He puts on his sunglasses, unlocks his car, and turns the AC on full blast.

One lives in New York. He walks outside in a heavy jacket. He grimaces as the cold wind hits his uncovered face. He opens the tr...