I’ve been reading Philip Zimbardo’s latest book, The Time Paradox. Zimbardo is best known for the Stanford Prison Experiment back in the 1970s, but he’s been doing a lot else since then. In the new book, Zimbardo and co-author/researcher John Boyd use what they call “time perspective”—a person’s attitude toward past, present and future—as a [...]

Years ago, when I was making my living mainly from freelance writing, I tried an experiment to help me cope with my brutal internal editor. (The one who was immobilizing me, oh, every third word or so.) I opened a separate window on my computer screen, just for writing down what I was saying to [...]