At 9 p.m. on a recent Friday night, Max Harding had just returned from a barefoot run in the woods. The eccentric 20-year-old Californian was back in a large barn in rural Pennsylvania — still barefoot — alternatively working on his startup and asking me about the point of life. Though not an especially adept
This As They Told It essay is based on a conversation with Lily Vittayarukskul, 30, co-founder and CEO of water lily. It has been edited for length and clarity. As a child, I was fascinated by the universe and wanted to understand how the world worked. Science taught me that even the most important and
