During his three terms as the mayor of New York, Ed Koch was well-known for asking just about anyone he'd run into, "How am I doing?" Koch was explicit about wanting to know, but I think most of us ...

We live in an age of Twitter, of 140 characters, of quick comebacks and pithy replies. Of looking like we know what we are doing, where we are going, where we ought to be by now. Online, we see what ...