For years, possibly centuries, smart people have been teaching us the difference between intent and impact.* When I speak, I may intend one thing but what matters to you is how you receive what I say.

What constitutes an event? Are there temporal, spatial bounds, and do we evaluate the event by its intent or its impact? I recently picked up “The Stuff of Thought” by Steven Pinker, which explores ...

Intent is what you mean to do, and impact is how your actions are perceived and felt by others. “I have never been more excited about where we are,” Burgess Owens recently said about education in Utah ...