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…
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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…
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…
Chaos, chaos figures and disrupting you
Some translations of the Old Testament of the Bible begin something like this: In the beginning, when the Earth was without form and void, and…
‘The soup is getting cold’: Lessons in curiosity and perfectionism from Leonardo da Vinci
I’ve recently finished listening to the audio version of Walter Isaacson’s excellent Leonardo da Vinci biography. I’m sure I’ve lost something from actually holding this…