Observation
Subway footlongs and the economy
I often use Subway footlong prices as a barometer of our current economy and I have been doing…
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Life
Curious About Stuff
1:23pm: This is a brand-new blog, and this is the first real post. If you see any other…
Essays
The Art of Seeing: How Attention Shapes Everything
Most of us move through the world in a kind of waking sleep — eyes open, but not…
Reflection
On Sitting With Uncertainty
We live in an age that treats uncertainty as a problem to be solved rather than a condition…
Life
The Slow Work of Becoming
There's a particular kind of progress that only shows up in retrospect — slow, nonlinear, invisible until suddenly…
Ideas
Everything Interesting Happens at the Edges
The most interesting things — in ecology, in culture, in thought — tend to happen at borders. Not…
Essays
In Defense of Not Being Productive
Productivity culture has colonized our inner lives. What we've lost in the process is harder to name, but…
Ideas
The Case for Deep Boredom
We have eliminated boredom from modern life with remarkable efficiency. In doing so, we may have eliminated something…
Life
Why Small Places Matter
There's a kind of knowledge that only comes from staying in one place long enough to understand it.…