Skip to content

dylan tweney

if you're bored, you're not paying attention

  • About
  • Email
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Tumblr
  • Instagram

Menu

  • About
  • Rough Drafts
  • Published Work
    • Valimail
    • VentureBeat
    • Wired
  • Full Archive

Recent Posts

  • Zen, death, love, and an exorcism.
  • I have heard the toadfish singing.
  • Walking through a shitstorm.
  • Either way, you get your pet back.
  • Grief and gratitude.

Recent Reading

  • A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism
  • We’re Not in This Together | Ajay Singh Chaudhary
  • [Essay] Poem for Harm, by Matthew Zapruder | Harper's Magazine
  • What’s ‘wild swimming’? The perfect antidote to cabin fever
  • ‘A Preventable Catastrophe’
  • Discord Was Once The Alt-Right’s Favorite Chat App. Now It’s Gone Mainstream And Scored A New $3.5 Billion Valuation
  • The Infinite Heartbreak of Loving Hong Kong
  • Guest Blog: From The Mainland to A Marathoner-- My T.I. Journey from Non-Swimmer to Open Water Long Distance - Total Immersion
  • The Hidden History Of Juneteenth
  • Where will you be? Why Black Lives Matter in the Hawaiian Kingdom

Recent books

Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
by Thich Nhat Hanh

Why We Swim
Why We Swim
by Bonnie Tsui

Hitler
Hitler
by Joachim Fest

Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
by Thich Nhat Hanh

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer




goodreads.com

Month: July 2009

Big Money in Journalism

7/23/20097/30/2009 economy, journalism, publishing, technologyRough Drafts4 Comments

I’ll admit it: I got into journalism for the money.

Columbia Journalism School dean Nicholas Lemann has said: “I’ve never met a single person in 35 years who went into journalism out of pure economic reason.”

He never met me.… Read the rest

Big Money in Journalism

Blind photographers

7/17/20095/9/2018 gadgets, iphone, nokia, photographyNotes

photo of pigeons in Istanbul by Tim O'Brien

Brian X. Chen wrote a moving story about how three professional photographers are continuing to pursue their art even though they’re almost totally blind. One of them went blind after he’d become a photographer, but has found a way to continue working using a Nokia N82 and an iPhone 3GS.… Read the rest

Blind photographers

This is my happy face

7/15/20097/15/2009 Notes

happy2

Happiest People Ever!

… Read the rest
This is my happy face

To Run Better, Start By Ditching Your Nikes

7/10/20092/18/2011 WiredPublished Work, Wired


Before the Nikes, before the breathable, antimicrobial running shorts, before the personal fitness coaches, heart rate monitors, wrist-mounted GPS and subscriptions to Runner’s World, you were a runner.

And, like all children, you ran barefoot.

Now, a small but growing body of research suggests that barefoot is the way adults should run, too.… Read the rest

To Run Better, Start By Ditching Your Nikes
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Minnow by WordPress.com.