Being scared in a controlled environment lets us flirt with danger without consequences. Horror media gives people a chance to explore anxiety and darkness while remaining safe. Watching a killer ...

Being afraid to spend your hard-earned money in retirement can cost you in more ways than one.

You tell yourself you are being disciplined. You are watching burn, negotiating every SaaS subscription, pushing hires out another quarter. That is what responsible founders do, right? But sometimes, ...

Halloween 2019, I wrote a column about fear, asking experts the why. Not about adrenaline dumps, and evolutionary advantages — nine times of 10, wind rustles brush, not tigers; but when it IS a cat, ...

When we're curious about something we move toward it. But when something scares us we back away. So how might we do both at once? Or nearly at once, for we can’t be simultaneously wide-eyed while our ...

As Halloween draws ever closer, it’s time for what has become a bit of a Thoughts on Thinking blog tradition to post a horror/fear-associated piece. My first post in this realm of thought covered 5 ...

Add DMNews to your Google News feed. I turned 70 last month, and on my birthday I did something I haven’t done in decades: I made a list. Not a bucket list or a list of goals I still want to achieve.