The Great Saunter! This weekend we continued the tradition – three years and counting – of walking the 32-mile perimeter of Manhattan in one day. The Great Saunter. An event of such magnitude deserves a name of a certain calibre, and the Saunter does not disappoint. Today the ten of us who walked on Saturday [...]

From Bill McKibben, 2007

Be present in the moment

Re: Election Mania I value all responses to this newsletter, because everything I write here is a work in progress. I’m navigating this stuff as I go, and the deeper we get into uncharted political territory, the more complex it becomes to distill my thoughts down into an 800 word segment. Exposing my opinions to [...]

Untethered So I mentioned last week that The Social Dilemma, Netflix’s documentary about the dangers of social media, inspired me to go one week with no phone. So part of the newsletter will be some takeaways after seven days “off the grid.” Here are the particulars of what I did: Turned off my phone for [...]

How young adults are being set up to view the world as more threatening than it is

Sports are back! We’re in Week 2 of the NFL season, the Ravens look as terrifyingly good as always, and Lamar is still the greatest show on turf. It’s taken some time, but I’m finally starting to get a handle on where everyone landed in the off-season. Football is back, baby! Just kidding! I’m not [...]

Arguably the best part of my week

Returning to the office in a not-so-distant dystopian future