How to Write a Letter
Dear 2026
TIME CAPSULE: January 18, 2021
The current state of the world triggered (unwelcome) memories from during the pandemic. Below is the newsletter from January 18, 2021, looking back on the...
How to Talk to Yourself: New Year New Home
Adaptation of a photo by Alexander Andrew Happy New Year! Hello again. I hope this finds you and yours well and warm. I launched How to Talk to Yourself...
When You Realize that You Are Where You're Supposed to Be
Game and Match, Tom Stoppard
How to Not See the Gorillas
Don't Look Over There
Only the Young
You Know Very Well
How to Be Better Represented
Maybe Just a Little Hope as a Treat?
How to Tell a New Story About Higher Education
Our Knowledge Infrastructure Is Starting to Crack
How to Tell a Story
We All Begin as Something Told by Another
How Not to Make Content
Save Your Quarters for Some High-Quality Friction
How to Signal Virtue
Living a good life is difficult, in part because it’s boring.
How to Know When You're Done
Notes on Creativity
BOOKS THAT SWERVED MY THINKING IN 2024: Part Three (and Final)
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau and Senses of Walden by Stanley Cavell
BOOKS THAT SWERVED MY THINKING IN 2024: Part Two
Philosophy & Animal Life, by Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, John McDowell, Ian Hacking, and Cary Wolfe
BOOKS THAT SWERVED MY THINKING IN 2024: Part One
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
How to Be Thankful
Thanks for stopping by
How to Be Fair
Our daughter Q led us across the road from her dorm, then down an opening in the trees where the concrete underfoot had long been split by oak roots, that...
How to Count
It's not just a numbers game
How to Fit Your Life Inside Your Life
Okay, so Let Me Explain
How to Go to Work
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on UnsplashMy son M, now 21, has been working as a sales associate at a large popular apparel retailer for several months now. Not...
