1: It was the spring of 2019.  Author and columnist David Brooks‘s close friend Peter Marks was struggling with depression.

They had gathered for a weekend together.  “My wife noticed a change immediately,” David recounts.  “A light had gone out.  There was a flatness in his voice, a stillness in his eyes.” 

Pete told David what he already knew: “He wasn’t himself.  He was doing what he loved most—playing … continue reading

1: David Bradley has a unique skill.

A skill that allowed him to start two successful consulting firms and then buy and revive The Atlantic magazine.

The skill? “He’s fantastic at seeing and choosing the right people,” David Brooks writes in his book How to Know a Person.

“Job interviews are notoriously unreliable,” David observes, “in part because many people aren’t good at seeing others, and in part because … continue reading