The magic of magazines
tl;dr: I helped make a magazine! I fell in love with magazines as a young adult. In college, I contributed […]
2025
Haiku changed my life
One crisp autumn day, on a whim, I started sending haiku to a few friends via email and text message.
Collaboration and photography
This summer, my friend Janne-Pekka Manninen, a Finnish journalist and photographer, began a three-month artist’s residency in Berlin. He invited
It’s Clippy’s world now
When Microsoft first introduced its Office assistant, “Clippy,” it was ridiculed by many. The cutesy animated paperclip came across as
How to write like Neal Stephenson
I was standing in the futuristic, multi-story atrium of NVIDIA’s “Endeavor” building when I saw Neal Stephenson leaning against a
What it’s like to attend a Renaissance Weekend
Last weekend, on a sunny balcony overlooking Monterey Bay, with cocktail chatter in the near background and sea lions barking
Introduction to Listening Poetry
This summer, I took a five-week course from The Good Listening Project to learn the craft of listening poetry: poetry that arises from
Good listening leads to better thinking
A fellow consultant recently asked me for advice on writing and publishing more consistently. He wasn’t asking me to ghostwrite
Writing with (and without) AI
Artificial intelligence complicates things for writers. It’s complicating everything for everyone these days, sure. We all have AI in our
What is content? What is writing?
Like many writers who take their craft seriously, I had an uneasy relationship with the word “content” for a long