The Farhad Manjoo beat
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Surviving five days of soylent
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Learning how to say goodbye to the past
I've been humbled a lot in an essential way since I last wrote you in October. I crashed the car I asked you to bury me in, slept in a Lincoln Continental...
We're still here
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Get Waxed
Unfortunately, I wasted these letters' best subject line yet on this unfinished one, left two weeks ago when I ran out of adderall. It was a particularly fun...
Blowing Smoke
I have to confess... I ended up building a section on the site for these. Here's this one. I just couldn't bear the TinyLetter site-bound "letter archive"...
I Am Still Coughing and Sending Emails to Myself
Hey. My late-month adderall deficit vacation has seemed particularly prolonged, this go around, but it would appear - post-Extratone's first birthday on the...
David and the Bilge
We've all known that Radiolab is superb since its origin, but I didn't really start taking the time to listen to podcasts methodically again (since I used to...
A year of blasphemy
I've just spent what seems like way too much time writing my first real addition to Words of David Blue in Red in a very long time. It begins with the story...
Assumed Suicidal, but Impervious to Email Fatigue
I've probably already told some of you one or more of these stories, but these past few weeks have been more interesting than usual. I spent nearly all of...
Pros & Woes of my Tardy, Existential Toddlerhood
I am feeling discouraged and stressed, but that's okay. Well... that's all I was compelled to write, sober. Yes, I'm still thinking about why I am doing this...
The Millennial Startup Chronicles #88325632
The Pitch: Dirty, Digital, Defective? White people really like to sit around and talk about things, and about talking about things. They like making up their...
Dinkus
There are a few entities which continue to validate what I'm pursuing, but Joshua Topolsky and his Outline are particularly worth noting. In search of...
Hey
I'm crazy enough to believe that I can - or must - learn the things you're supposed to seek from academia by embarking on a journey to start an online...