Jess Love

Jess Love is the senior director for the Ryan Institute on Complexity at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

The Last Good Thing

DVDs, streaming, and the price
of nostalgia

By Jess Love | Thursday December 11, 2025

Anatomy of a Collision

The sudden intersection of one’s professional and parental identities can lead to a strange kind of work-life imbalance

By Jess Love | Thursday December 22, 2022

We Need to Chat

How technology has changed the way we relate to one another

By Jess Love | Monday September 7, 2015

Magic Fingers

Do baby sign language courses really work?

By Jess Love | Thursday January 22, 2015

What Makes Hemingway Hemingway?

On the psychology of artistic style

By Jess Love | Thursday January 15, 2015

On Expecting Things to Fall Apart

We understand entropy surprisingly early in life

By Jess Love | Thursday January 8, 2015

Limericks That Leave You Hanging

When we expect to hear a rhyme and don’t

By Jess Love | Thursday December 18, 2014

Tuesdays with Siri

By Jess Love | Thursday December 11, 2014

How to Talk Shakespeare

By Jess Love | Wednesday December 3, 2014

Headless Bear Walks Up to Woman; Awesomeness Ensues

The search for the perfect title

By Jess Love | Thursday November 20, 2014

The Power of Um

By Jess Love | Thursday June 26, 2014

Anthropomorphic Trees (Webcomic #7)

By Jess Love | Thursday June 19, 2014

I Say Shutout, You Say Clean Sheet

By Jess Love | Thursday June 12, 2014

Not Enough Brain (A Webcomic)

By Jess Love | Thursday June 5, 2014

Who’s John Again?

By Jess Love | Thursday May 29, 2014

When Nouns Verb Oddly

By Jess Love | Thursday May 22, 2014

Out of Office (A Webcomic)

By Jess Love | Thursday May 15, 2014

Leave Your Laptop Home

By Jess Love | Thursday May 1, 2014

Don’t Mock the Monocle (A Webcomic)

By Jess Love | Thursday April 24, 2014

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