This weekend I visited some friends in Raleigh. It was a great trip – like an extended adult sleepover – and one that was long overdue. I needed a break from my routine, and the late nights, fast food and video game binges did the trick. To borrow from Jonathan Haidt, I view routine as [...]

Crossing over into the best time of the year.

Last Saturday, a friend sent me a picture of a 15 mile run he’d just finished. It was a screenshot of the route he’d taken, along the water in San Francisco, that included the duration of the run and his average mile pace. An equivalent for non-runners might be a photo of a tee card [...]

A broken watch and a Zoom trick.

Happy Easter and belated Passover! Going to start with a quote that’s stuck with me the last few days: “The wider you expand your circle of compassion, the harder it can be to balance your own individual interests with the interests of everyone else in that circle.” – Ted Chiang I’ve been extremely unproductive as [...]

Return to office

I am genuinely throwing in the towel on this one. I tried twice to put my thoughts on paper, but the later it gets the farther I am from articulating what I want to say. I’m just really tired at this point. And on the one week when I add two new subscribers! I think [...]

I think technically last week’s edition marked the one year anniversary of this pandemic, but I missed it. So this one will have to do. I spent one of my early newsletters reflecting on the seventh week of quarantine, and here we are at the one year mark. It’s nuts. The feeling those first few [...]

A plug for an exciting new project and some thoughts on us as consumers