It feels like watching a land mass splinter into pieces in fast forward, dividing a single species into many; Darwin’s finches. Let’s hit pause, rewind, play to figure out what’s happening.
Let’s start with the situation at Columbia University. It …
My grandmother used to remind me - typically in response to an inexplicable decision I had made - that when I was 5 years old I told her: Grandma, I’m a player, not a worker. Hard to say if I …
Progressives must today be “anti racist”. Complexity and nuance has been collapsed into a one-dimensional axis of oppressor/oppressed. This is based on immutable things like racial identities; character is irrelevant.
The word evil has lost meaning. This matters because when …
Post; hit publish; share. To share is to leave a record, a residue of our having existed. It's modern cave painting.
Contemplation is invisible, time consuming and hard. To understand and not share is to question whether the contemplation happened. …
We walk down the street. “5” he says. “hmm”, I ask? “5. That’s how many people I’ve seen in the window in my life”.
We continue walking. I look up, noticing the figure in the window. He’s running background jobs, …
Decisions, options and overwhelm destroy clear thinking.
What is it you would miss if your time was cut short?
This question tends to cut through most of the cruff. Visualize it. That feels like a good way in to the …
It's a marathon. Or maybe it's a series of sprints. Whatever it is, the thing that's important is to notice fatige. Sometimes struggling against a specific problem, or even trudging one foot in front of the other in a general …
Overwhelm is the enemy of craft. The rush, the deadline, the stress. On it goes. Fear underlies this. What is the fear? What if I miss the deadline? Will I be mocked? Get a bad review? Fired?
How can we …
