How to Write — The Awl
Incredibly accurate description of the writing life by Heather Havrilevsky. Today, I woke up at 4 a.m. because one of my […]
Field Notes
2016
Laurie Anderson: Advice to the Young
Laurie Anderson is my hero. “I became an artist because I want to be free,” she says in this short
Field Notes
Suburban bliss.
Not to complain, but the children have been obnoxious, I’m not sleeping enough, car alarms keep going off in the
Rough Drafts
Bay Parade Swim Report
Today’s Bay Parade swim went super well. It was a beautiful day on the Bay, the water wasn’t too cold (maybe
Field Notes
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist
“The problem is, maximizing interruptions in the name of business creates a tragedy of the commons, ruining global attention spans
Help me keep the SF Bay clean.
I’m doing a swim on Sunday, May 22, as part of the annual Bay Parade. I’m part of a relay team,
When a clickbait headline leads to national outrage.
So Gizmodo publishes a story whose headline reads “Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News,” and the Internet goes predictably apeshit. There’s just one problem: The story doesn’t deliver what the headline promises.
Field Notes
Master class on prosody.
Vox just dropped a 12-minute master class on prosody featuring some amazing rap lyrics. Rhyme, beats, metrical motives … this
Breaststroke.
The breaststroke has a faint sense of femininity attached to it these days. There’s the name, of course: Anything beginning
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As a horse when he has run
As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tracked the game, a bee when it has