George Washington’s Thanksgiving proclamation
I’ve been watching, sporadically, the lessons on Thanksgiving they’re teaching my five-year-old niece over Zoom, since that’s how kindergarten is taught these days. It is,…
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Banned
That brief, fairly-well supported (I thought) piece I wrote last week on forming a more perfect union? Facebook didn’t want it. In fact, Facebook seems…
In order to form a more perfect union
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,…
United we stand, untied we fall
It’s after 4 a.m. here on the east coast of the United States, the morning after the 2020 election. Lots of local races and ballot…
Vote
On Jan. 20, 2017, as my wife, our pup and I piled into the van to head up to celebrate my Dad’s birthday with him…
Fake it ’til you make it? Don’t
One of the things we talk about when dealing with impostor syndrome and in building confidence is faking it until you make it — that…
Game B
In a lot of ways, 2020 has felt like a giant shift in the world. It’s not just our COVID-19 quarantine and masking, during which…
Replication and interpretation
In his manifesto Team Human (serialized on Medium), Douglas Rushkoff discusses, among many other things, musical notation. Musical notation, he writes, is meant to let…
Where’s your edge?
If you’re not listening, Brian Koppelman — the creator of Showtime’s “Billions” and writer, among others, of the films Rounders and Ocean’s Thirteen — has…
Cities
James Altucher thinks COVID-19 might be the end of New York City as we know it. Manhattan, in particular, is a small island with a…