Ideas
Rethinking self-interest
In the late 1990s, people around the world began to live in a state of rising fear of two missing
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Vignettes, flashes, moments in time
Bentoism
Our new normal
Gas is cheap but nobody’s filling up.
Houses are full but streets are empty.
Businesses are dying while others
Bentoism
This is how long it takes to change the world
We want change to be instant. Immediate. But there is biological, historical, and sociological evidence that suggests thirty years is
Creativity
The art of experiencing
“Arriving late at a performance, and seated in the center of the second row, I looked up and saw what
Ideas
In defense of normal
We often underrate the value of normal.
We think normal means dull, average, or mediocre. Normal is unimaginative. Normal is
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My friend Noel
For six weeks while writing the book, I worked from the home of an 89-year-old woman named Noel Osheroff.
I
Kickstarter
Smell the smell
In March of 2013 I flew to Los Angeles on short notice.
It was two days after the Veronica Mars
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From the West Coast
Yesterday I had lunch with a friend.
My friend had recently spoken with the CEO of a company that he
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What's your Uber rating?
Last weekend my wife, son, and I went to storytime at the library. Fifteen kids, twenty parents, a big mat
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Eulogy for George Grove
George Grove entered this world on June 15, 1917 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and left it on December 17, 2015 in
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The three amibros
A few weeks ago I decided to take a road trip out West. I booked it planning to go alone.
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Occupying Washington Square
At 11pm on Saturday night 300 people were gathered in the fountain bowl in New York’s Washington Square Park.
Music
Rudy Lawless
The subway near my apartment has elevators to get to the tracks, and as I get in one on Saturday
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Heat
New York summers are pregnant. The air drips with humidity, the streets applaud the flip-flaps of determined feet, skirts draped