Samier SaeedTrump’s Opponents Handed Him The “Muslim Ban” VictoryI do not share the widespread and calamitous dismay being generally expressed in what might be termed the anti-Trump world. I don’t think…Jun 29, 2018Jun 29, 2018
Samier SaeedCounting Calories And The Myth Of How Great Doing Whatever You Want IsI caved; I now count my calories. Kind of. I mean, I do, I’m just not a total spaz about it. If I go somewhere to eat, I don’t ask them for…Feb 18, 2018Feb 18, 2018
Samier SaeedWhat I Am Reading Right NowPeak by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool— This is a book in the same general family as Mindset by Carol Dweck and The Talent Code by Daniel…Feb 16, 2018Feb 16, 2018
Samier SaeedSUPER LATE EDIT: Yes, I was quite wrong about Jones’s chances, but I never claimed clairvoyance and…Suppose that Roy Moore loses to his Democratic opponent, whose name, as most of us learned for the first time Friday, is Doug Jones (this…Nov 14, 2017Nov 14, 2017
Samier SaeedWhat Tony Robbins Can Teach Us About The American Political MomentOn December 1st 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus to make room for whites who had just boarded. The…Feb 7, 2017Feb 7, 2017
Samier SaeedWhen The News Likes to Make Candidates Look as Ridiculous or Conniving as Most of Us Already Think…I like to get my news from Politico. Its coverage of domestic politics is informative (I was the only person I knew who could explain how a…Jun 22, 2016Jun 22, 2016