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Saw an announcement of a new publishing company that's focused on male writers, primarily. Interesting (in a not-great way) set of discussions on Reddit. Quick dismissals, concerns about the manosphere, complaints about the historical dominance of men in publishing (up until the last 20 years). I actually think this is a good idea. We *all*
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This episode of the Ezra Klein podcast was worth listening to twice. It’s great for a lot of reasons: But, what caught my ear was a consistent theme: our current leaders aren’t serious about a good outcome with China. Serious. Are we serious? Are our leaders? Here’s a long quote that demonstrates the exasperation of
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some useful words ahead of a long drive: Song of the Open Road (Walt Whitman) 1 Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune, Henceforth I whimper no more,
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Nick Cave’s work answering questions from readers will be, in the future, as esteemed as his songwriting. This answer to the question “why are we here” is beautiful and one I’ll come back to again and again. “Personally, I do my best to move through life with a joy that is reconciled to the sorrow
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Yesterday on my afternoon walk I was listening to a podcast episode with a famous writer talking to a well known podcaster and author. They are both media-makers who get paid for clicks and impressions, but they deal in ideas. They are very well respected, smart, successful and, because they’ve been doing their media-making so
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This post by Adam Singer has been in an open tab for a while. For one, it’s a relevant topic for me right now as I think about work and “my work” in whatever phase I’m in, careerwise. And, it’s also relevant because I’m re-reading some fiction by folks that were “late” in their career
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Jello Jigglers, poetry, business innovation. Creativity is your moat in the AI era I found my new career hero: Dana Gioia. Stanford MBA, MA from Harvard in Comparative Lit. Corporate champion. Non-profit leader. Walked away from a small fortune in corporate America to write, teach and “pursue beauty.” But, he’s also a compelling example of the
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America got the president it asked for. Even if you don’t like the candidate, there are no signs (as of now) that the democratic process itself broke down, so we will have to live with what’s slouching towards us. If you believe our leaders reflect the electorate, if you agree that the values, desires and
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This is a well told story of a business breakthrough, a risk taken, and the focus and intelligence of a mid-century Japanese mother of 6 (!) who had to make rice three times a day. Im guessing Yamada got promoted, but Fumiko did ALL the work on the testing: Yamada wanted to ensure that the
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This is a nice, short essay from PG about the future when a significant portion of the population won’t be able to write (or, more likely, need to write due to AI). Just like calculators have undermined our numeracy, AI will kill the writing skill for a lot of (the majority of) us: The result