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— Moni

For someone who goes on and on about staying curious, I haven’t made a lot of time to read books.    Until now.  I just finished one by...

Hey there friend,   The Obama Foundation picked “pluralism” as the theme for its 2024 Democracy Forum , and I was humbled — and...

These days, most of my thoughts around curiosity, ending divisiveness, and creating community have been going straight into my podcast, A...

Hello! Congratulations! And thank you so much for this amazing honor, what in the world, this is still not quite real – I have my husband...

Hey friend, It occurred to me the other day that I’m learning constantly from some very thoughtful, curious, and hard-working friends...

It’s here! 😱 My brand new podcast, A Braver Way, is out in the world with three new episodes — yes, THREE — razor-focused on the...

It’s finally official! A Braver Way, a brand new podcast I’m hosting about how to stay curious across divides, launches October 2023 and...

Partway through my curiosity workshop this summer, after an exercise where participants came up with quick questions about each other’s...

Why do we read? We read to escape. We read to learn. And we read for this bright, shining moment of illumination where we understand...

Breathless in Aspen We started our adventure at the Aspen Ideas Festival, where I gave the most winded talk of my entire life. Our flight...

Shame is that feeling you get when you realize you’ve violated the norms of your community. But it only works when it comes from your...

“Hurt people hurt people.” It’s a lovely bit of rhetoric that happens to say something profound. To quote my new friend Erin Jones on a...

In my work I think a lot about the relationship between truth and trust. How you need trust to get to truth. Especially the kinds of deep...

In my house we are *obsessed* with the soundtrack to Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical. Especially “School Song,” a clever track that...

My eyes lingered on a short, quick tweet awhile before I realized it was one of the most delightfully curious compliments I’d ever seen. ...

A conservative friend of mine — let’s call her Jen — just attended one of those dialogue-rich events in a major city with a liberal...

It started with a question. A man named Alan turned to a woman named Jamie — both of them locals in Edmonds, Washington, who’d signed up...

There’s always a bit of awkwardness when you walk into a friend’s home for the first time, a tension I find myself defusing by looking...

Ever notice something in you jump in shock when somebody you’re listening closely to says something you really don’t like? That’s what...

As I packed up from one of my curiosity workshops this summer, a participant named Don came up to me. He was thrilled about what he’d...

“Don’t assume that what you voted against is what they voted for.” When I read that tip from Nealin Parker in USA Today this week, I...

“Our brains are most productive when there is no demand that they be reactive.” A mentor of mine, psychologist Sherry Turkle, made that...